Kvam

Kvam is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality is located along the Hardangerfjorden in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Norheimsund. Other larger settlements in the municipality include Øystese, Bru, Ålvik, Tørvikbygd, Omastranda, and Mundheim. The largest settlement in the municipality is the Norheimsund/Øystese urban area which has a population (2013) of 4,291. Historically, the municipality was named Vikør.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was Hvammr, identical with the word hvammr which means "(small) valley", possibly referring the Steinsdalen valley west of Norheimsund. Before 1912, the municipality was named Vikør, which comes from the Old Norse word Vikøyar. It was the name of the farm on which the old Vikøy Church was located.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times; they were granted on 27 November 1981. The blue and silver arms are designed to look like the Fyksesund, a narrow fjord in the municipality. The shape of the fjord is that it is narrower in the middle and this is symbolized in the design of the coat-of-arms.

Kvam (disambiguation)

Kvam may refer to the following places:

See also

KVAM

KVAM (93.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Limon, Colorado, USA. The station is owned by Victor Michael, Jr., through licensee Kona Coast Radio, LLC.

History

The station was assign the call letters KLIM-FM on December 5, 2001. The station changed its call sign to KIIQ on May 19, 2003, to DKIIQ on June 24, 2005, and back to KIIQ on November 2, 2007. The call letters changed to the current KVAM on July 2, 2015.

Construction permit

On April 6, 2015, KVAM was granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission construction permit to upgrade to a Class C2 FM with 25.5 kW, and change its city of license to Deer Trail, Colorado, where it plans to enter the Denver market as a rimshot.

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