Utøy

Utøy or Utøya is a village area in the municipality of Inderøy in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village sits about half way between Vangshylla (to the southwest) and Sakshaug (to the northeast). Kjerknesvågen lies about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to the north, and the Trondheimsfjord lies just to the south. The "Utøy area" generally includes the area around the village which is the southern part of the Inderøy peninsula.

Economy

The predominant employment in for the Utøy area is agriculture, as in the rest of Inderøy, in addition to functioning as a suburb of Steinkjer, Verdal, and Levanger. There is no notable industry, but the area has a Coop Marked grocery store, Utøy School, kindergarten, Sakshaug Church, and amateur theatre.

At nearby Vangshylla there is a hotel that specializes in fishing tourism in the fjord, a boat harbor, and also located there is the Skarnsund Bridge that when it opened in 1991 was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world and connects Mosvik to Innherred.

Utoy

Utøy or Utoy can refer to:

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Achernar Island

Achernar Island (66°58′S 57°12′E / 66.967°S 57.200°E / -66.967; 57.200), also known as Utöy, is an island 2.8 kilometres (1.5 nmi) long, lying 1.9 kilometres (1 nmi) west of Shaula Island in the Øygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Utoy (the outer island). The group was first visited by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) party in 1954; the island was renamed by ANCA after the star Achernar, which was used for an astrofix in the vicinity.

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Achernar Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).