Lomnessjøen is a
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in
Rendalen Municipality
Rendalen is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bergset. Other villages in the municipality include Hanestad, Otne ...
in
Innlandet
Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken ( ...
county,
Norway
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. The villages
Ã…kre and
Otnes
Otnes is a village in Rendalen Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the lake Lomnessjøen, about north of the village of Åkre. The village of Bergset (the municipal centre) lies about to the north of Otnes. ...
are located on the shores of the lake. The lake is part of the
Renaelva
The Rena or Renaelva is a river in Innlandet county, Norway. The long river runs through Rendalen Municipality and Åmot Municipality in Innlandet county. This river is a tributary of the large river Glomma. Kjøllsæter Bridge connects the e ...
river system. The Renaelva river flows into the lake from the north. The south end of the river drains into the larger lake
Storsjøen which is about to the south of this lake.
History
From 1946-1953, the southern outlet of the lake was modified to lower the water level of the lake by about with the purpose of increasing the amount of
arable land
Arable land (from the , "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.''Oxford English Dictionary'', "arable, ''adj''. and ''n.''" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2013. Alternatively, for the purposes of a ...
surrounding the lake and river upstream.
See also
*
List of lakes in Norway
This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in Norway, sorted by Counties of Norway, county.
For the geography and history of lakes in that country, see Lakes in Norway, including:
*Lakes in Norway#Largest lakes, List of largest lakes in Norway
*L ...
References
Rendalen
Lakes of Innlandet
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