Hamarøy

Hamarøy kommune Hábmera suohkan
Municipality
Coat of arms Nordland within Norway
Hamarøy within Nordland
Coordinates: 68°4′33″N 15°46′56″E / 68.07583°N 15.78222°E / 68.07583; 15.78222Coordinates: 68°4′33″N 15°46′56″E / 68.07583°N 15.78222°E / 68.07583; 15.78222
Country	Norway
County	Nordland
District	Salten
Administrative centre	Oppeid
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Jan-Folke Sandnes (Conservative Party)
Area
• Total	1,029.95 km2 (397.67 sq mi)
• Land	920.31 km2 (355.33 sq mi)
• Water	109.64 km2 (42.33 sq mi)
Area rank	103 in Norway
Population (2012)
• Total	1,783
• Rank	342 in Norway
• Density	1.9/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-7.7 %
Demonym(s)	Hamarøying Hamarøyværing
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1849
Official language form	Neutral
Website	www.hamaroy.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Hamarøy (Lule Sami: Hábmer) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Oppeid. Other villages include Innhavet, Karlsøy, Presteid, Skutvika, Tømmerneset, Tranøy, and Ulvsvåg.

The municipality of Hamarøy was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1964, part of Hamarøy located south of the Sagfjorden (population: 77) was transferred to neighboring Steigen. On the same date, the Tysnes and Molvik farms (population: 33) was transferred from Hamarøy to Tysfjord.

The municipality is named after the former island (now peninsula) Hamarøya (Old Norse: Hamarøy), since the first church (Hamarøy Church) was built there. The first element is the genitive case of Hǫm, the former uncompounded name of the island. The last element is øy which means "island". The former name of the island is probably identical with the word hǫm which means "thigh/leg (of an animal)" because the island (or a part of it) was shaped in the form of an animal's leg. Historically, the municipality name was spelled Hammerø.

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