Lindesnes
| Lindesnes kommune | |||
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View of Vigeland, the administrative centre of Lindesnes Municipality
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 Lindesnes within Vest-Agder |
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| Coordinates: 58°06′15″N 07°17′20″E / 58.10417°N 7.28889°ECoordinates: 58°06′15″N 07°17′20″E / 58.10417°N 7.28889°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Vest-Agder | ||
| District | Sørlandet | ||
| Administrative centre | Vigeland | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor (2011) | Janne Fardal Kristoffersen (H) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 316.01 km2 (122.01 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 297.36 km2 (114.81 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 18.65 km2 (7.20 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 271 in Norway | ||
| Population (2016) | |||
| • Total | 4,943 | ||
| • Rank | 206 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 16.6/km2 (43/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | 10.2 % | ||
| Demonym(s) | Lindesnes-folk | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1029 | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Website | www |
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Lindesnes (English: the Naze) is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vigeland. Other villages in Lindesnes include Åvik, Høllen, Skofteland, Svenevig, and Vigmostad.
The municipality of Lindesnes was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 after the merger of the older municipalities of Spangereid (population: 899), Sør-Audnedal (population: 2,323), and Vigmostad (population: 589). The borders of the municipality have not changed since that time.
The oldest Old Norse form of the name was Líðandi. That name is derived from the verb líða which means "lead/go to an end" and the meaning is probably just "the end". A later form was Líðandisnes where the word nes which means "headland" was added (a word that is related to the English forms ness and naze). The traditional English language version of the name is just the Naze, derived from ness meaning headland.
The coat-of-arms is from modern times; they were granted on 25 April 1986. The arms are blue with a white or silver lighthouse on the center. The lighthouse represents the local Lindesnes Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in Norway. It was built in 1655 on the Lindesnes peninsula.
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