Nørve (or ''Nørvøya'') is an

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Ålesund Municipality Ålesund (, sometimes spelled Aalesund in English) is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ce ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...

county,

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. It is the largest of the islands containing the city center of

Ålesund Ålesund () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of Ålesund Municipality. The centre of the town of Ålesund lies on the islands of Hessa, Aspøya, Ålesund, Asp� ...

, the others being Aspøya and Hessa, located to the west. The island of Nørve is located south of Ellingsøya, north of Sula, and west of Uksenøya. There were 9,647 residents living on the island in 2015. Ålesund University College, the

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, Volsdalen Church, and the stadium of the local

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team

Aalesunds FK Aalesunds Fotballklubb, commonly known as Aalesund or AaFK, is a Norwegian professional association football, football club from the town of Ålesund (town), Ålesund, that competes in the Norwegian first division, the second tier of the Norwegi ...

are located on Nørvøya. The hill Aksla, a popular place from where to photograph the city, is located on the western part of Nørvøya. The

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highway runs along the south side of the island, connecting it to the other islands of Uksenøya (on the east) and Aspøya (on the west). On Nørve, the E136 highway connects to the Ellingsøy Tunnel, which is an

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that connects to the village of Hoffland on Ellingsøya to the north.

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Ålesund Islands of Møre og Romsdal {{MøreRomsdal-island-stub

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