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13 unusual facts about Ålesund


Årset

Årset, Ålesund, a village in the municipality of Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

Axel Revold

Revold was born in Ålesund as the son of merchant Julius Revold and Johanne Hjelpsten.

Dedé Anderson

In January 2009 he finally returned to Ålesund determined to play out the final season of his contract with Aalesund.

German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann

Bruno Heinemann had been fitted with four of the new weapons and they were removed after gunnery trials off Ålesund were completed.

German submarine U-241

The incident occurred at 10:21 p.m. about 125 miles west of Ålesund, Norway.

Myklebost

Myklebost, Ålesund, a village in Ålesund municipality, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Norway's Next Top Model

With Martina Lervik, another girl from Ålesund also won the sixth Cycle which was running from September to December 2008.

Starting with 13 girls, ranging between the ages of 16 - 27, the second cycle was won by Kamilla Alnes from Ålesund.

Norway's Next Top Model, Cycle 5

At last, 18 year old Kamilla Alnes from Ålesund triumphed over fellow finalists Ivanna Petrova and Polina Barbasova.

Ny-Ålesund

Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is one of the four permanent settlements on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago.

2008 — India inaugurates the Himadri Station, its first Arctic research station, in Ny-Ålesund

In summer Arctic Terns nest on the ground alongside the path and may "dive-bomb" visitors who get too close.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.


Akademiet Norge

Akademiet's schools for private education are located in Bergen, Drammen, Hamar, Haugesund, Lillehammer, Molde, Oslo, Sandnes and Ålesund.

Borgund

Borgund, Møre og Romsdal, a former municipality now part of Ålesund municipality

Gulating

The Gulaþing received delegates from Lyngør in the south to north of Ålesund, and its laws were observed from the eastern inland valleys of Valdres and Hallingdal to the Faroe Islands in the west.

Lene Løseth

Lene Løseth (born 26 November 1986 in Ålesund) is a Norwegian alpine skier who races for Spjelkavik IL.

Mikal Angell Jacobus Landmark

Born in Ålesund, he was a great-grandson of a Jens Landmark (1772–1811), brother of Andreas (1769–1839) and Nils Landmark (1775–1859) and uncle of Jens Landmark (1811–1880).

Norway Pelagic

In August 2011, the company head office was relocated from Vågsøy municipality to Ålesund.

Russell Owen

That year he covered the air race to the North Pole, flying with Roald Amundsen (airship Norge) as far as Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard and meeting Richard Evelyn Byrd there.