Romsdalshalvøya | |
Other Name: | Romsdal Peninsula |
Type: | Peninsula |
Map: | Møre og Romsdal#Norway |
Label Position: | top |
Location: | Møre og Romsdal, Norway |
Area: | 1560km2 |
Romsdalshalvøya, sometimes translated as the Romsdal Peninsula, is a 1560km2 peninsula located in the Romsdal district of Møre og Romsdal county in Norway. The peninsula encompasses the western Norwegian municipalities of Molde, Gjemnes, and Hustadvika.[1]
The peninsula is connected to the mainland by a 5km (03miles) wide isthmus between the villages of Eidsvåg and Eidsøra in Molde Municipality. The peninsula is flanked by a number of fjords: Langfjord and Romsdalsfjord to the south, Julsund (to the west), Hustadvika to the north, Kornstadfjord and Kvernesfjord to the north-east, and Tingvollfjorden and Sunndalsfjord to the east.
About 42,000 people live on the peninsula, with another 5,000 on the adjacent islands.