Nordre Havrøyane est une île dans le landskap Sunnhordland du comté de Vestland. Elle appartient administrativement à Øygarden.
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Vikavågen is a village in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village lies on the southeastern coast of the island of Toftøyna. The 0.46-square-kilometre village has a population of 639 and a population density of 1,389 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Misje is an island in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The 1.16-square-kilometre island lies just south of the island of Toftøyna and north of the large island of Sotra. Almost all of the 320 inhabitants live on the eastern part of the island, which is referred to as the village of Misje.
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Toftøyna is an island in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The 7.5-square-kilometre island is connected by bridge to the island of Rongøyna, to the small island of Turøyna, and to the island of Misje. Toftøyna is connected to the mainland by a series of bridges by heading south via Misje island.
There are 2 main settlements on the rocky island: Vikavågen on the southeastern shore and Torsteinsvik on the northwestern shore. The main road on the island is Norwegian County Road 561 which runs between the two villages, connecting it to the surrounding islands. There are about 1,328 residents living on the island. The Hjeltefjorden flows along the eastern shore of the island and the North Sea lies to the west. There are two small straits to the north and south of the island, separating it from the neighboring islands of Rongøyna and Misje.
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On 29 April 2016, a CHC Helikopter Service Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter, carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B platform in the North Sea, crashed near the island of Turøyna, a Norwegian coastal island 36 kilometres from the city of Bergen. The main rotor assembly detached from the aircraft and the fuselage plummeted to the ground, exploding on impact. All 13 people, 11 Norwegians, one Briton and an Italian, on board were killed.
The subsequent investigation concluded that a gear in the main rotor gearbox had failed due to a fatigue crack that had propagated under-surface, escaping detection. Various safety recommendations were made, including for Airbus Helicopters, the current manufacturer of the type, to consider redesigning the affected gearbox.
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Turøyna is an island in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The 1.67-square-kilometre island lies just west of the islands of Toftøyna and Misje. Prior to 1964, the island was part of the old Herdla Municipality. Then from 1964 until 2020 it was part of Fjell Municipality.
About 100 people live on this island, which has a road connection to the mainland via the Turøy Bridge which connects to the island of Toftøyna. The road then continues over a series of bridges connecting a string of islands to each other and to the city of Bergen. The postcode is 5365 Turøy.
The island is a good spot for birdwatching and hosts an ornithological station.
The island received some notoriety because of a 2016 helicopter crash that killed all 13 people on board, mainly oil workers. The chopper was flying from the Gullfaks oil field to Bergen.