Official Name: | Hoffland |
Other Name: | Hovland |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Møre og Romsdal#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Møre og Romsdal |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Western Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Møre og Romsdal |
Subdivision Name3: | Sunnmøre |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Ålesund Municipality |
Area Total Km2: | 0.44 |
Population As Of: | 2018 |
Population Total: | 816 |
Population Density Km2: | 1855 |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 6057 Ellingsøy |
Coordinates: | 62.4953°N 6.1988°W |
Elevation M: | 27 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Hoffland or Hovland is a village in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the western end of the island of Ellingsøya, about northeast of the town of Ålesund and about west of the village of Myklebost.[2]
The 0.44km2 village has a population (2018) of 816 and a population density of .[3] It is located at the entrance to two undersea tunnels. The Ellingsøy Tunnel leads to the city of Ålesund on the nearby island of Nørvøya and the Valderøy Tunnel leads to the island of Valderøya in neighboring Giske Municipality.
Ole Brunes, a native of Hoffland, was among a group of fishermen of primarily Scandinavian ancestry who in the late 1880s founded the community of Hovland, Minnesota which he named for his Norwegian place of origin. Of similar origin is also the community of Hoffland, Nebraska.