Godøya

Godøya or Godøy[1] is an island in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island is famous for its beautiful nature, dominated by the 497-metre (1,631 ft) tall mountain Storhornet and the large lake Alnesvatnet.[2]

Godøya
Godøy
View of Godøya
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Location of the island
Godøya
Godøya (Norway)
Geography
LocationMøre og Romsdal, Norway
Coordinates62.476394°N 6.040381°E / 62.476394; 6.040381
Area10.9 km2 (4.2 sq mi)
Length6 km (3.7 mi)
Width3 km (1.9 mi)
Coastline19.5 km (12.12 mi)
Highest elevation497 m (1,631 ft)
Highest pointStorhornet
Administration
Norway
CountyMøre og Romsdal
MunicipalityGiske Municipality
Demographics
Population1117 (2015)
Pop. density102.5/km2 (265.5/sq mi)

The 10.9-square-kilometre (4.2 sq mi) island had 1,117 residents in 2015.[2] Most of the population lives on the southeastern side of the island in the villages of Godøy and Leitebakk, although the small fishing village of Alnes, with the old Alnes Lighthouse, is located on the north side of the island about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) away via a tunnel through the 436-metre (1,430 ft) tall mountain Sloktinden. Godøy Chapel is located on the southern coast of the island.

There is a lot of cultivated farm land along the shores. Fishing and fish processing are the main industries for the island. There is an undersea tunnel, the Godøy Tunnel, which connects Godøy to the neighboring island of Giske. There is further ferry-free road transportation (including the Giske Bridge) that connects the island to the town of Ålesund.[2]

A variety of wildlife can be found on the island, mammals such as Red deer, Roe deer, Otter, Harbour seal and American mink are predominant. The steep mountain sides of the island also contain a number of nesting White-tailed eagles.

Name

The name stems back to the Viking Age, and is derived from the name "Gud øy", which translates to "Island of God(s)" in English. The current name, Godøya, can be loosely translated to "the good island".[2]

gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.
gollark: Heaven is in fact hotter.

See also

References
  1. "Stadnamn og skrivemåten for stadnamn" (in Norwegian). NorgesKart.no. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  2. Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2015-09-29). "Godøya - øy i Giske". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2019-08-10.


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