Radøy

Infobox_Kommune
name = Radøy
idnumber = 1260
county = Hordaland
landscape = Nordhordland
capital = Manger
language = Nynorsk


demonym = Radværing
munwebpage = www.radoy.kommune.no
governor = Olav Steinar Namtvedt (Sp)
governor_as_of = 2003
arearank = 379
area = 112
arealand = 107
areapercent = 0.03
population_as_of = 2004
populationrank = 204
population = 4,678
populationpercent = 0.10
populationdensity = 44
populationincrease = 4.3
lat_deg = 60 | lat_min = 40 | lat_sec = 9 | lon_deg = 5 | lon_min = 2 | lon_sec = 10
utm_zone = 32V | utm_northing = 6732491 | utm_easting = 0283482 | geo_cat = adm2nd

Radøy is an island municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Radøy was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964, after the merger of large parts of Hordabø, Manger, and Sæbø, and smaller parts of Austrheim and Lindås.

General Information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was (just) "Röð". (The last element "øy" meaning "island" was added later.) The name is identical with the word "röð" for "row" (here in the sense "long island").

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 16 June 1991. The arms shows two black oarlocks on a yellow field. Oarlocks are on the gunwale of a boat and they support the oar and give force to the rower's stroke. The designer was Even Jarl Skoglund. [cite web|url=http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/r/radoy.htm|author=Norske Kommunevåpen|date=1990|title=Nye kommunevåbener i Norden|accessdaymonth=21 September|accessyear=2008] [cite web|url=http://www.fotw.us/flags/no-12-60.html|date=28 June 2002|title=Kommunevåpen|publisher= [http://www.fotw.us Flags of the World] |accessdaymonth=21 September|accessyear=2008] See also|Fosnes|Tjøme

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