Runde
Runde island
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Location in Møre og Romsdal
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| Location | Norway |
| Coordinates | 62°24′N 05°39′E / 62.400°N 5.650°ECoordinates: 62°24′N 05°39′E / 62.400°N 5.650°E |
| Area | 6.2 km2 (2.4 sq mi) |
| Length | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
| Width | 3.5 km (2.17 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 332 m (1,089 ft) |
| Highest point | Varden |
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| County | Møre og Romsdal |
| Municipality | Herøy |
Runde is an island in the municipality of Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island has a population of 102 people (as of November 2011), and it is connected by the Runde Bridge to the island of Remøya to the south.
Runde is famous for its enormous amount of birds. It is said that there are about 500,000 to 700,000 seabirds inhabiting the island, most of them are to be found in the cliffs. The Runde Environmental Centre (Norwegian: Runde Miljøsenter) is a research station at the bird island.
Runde lies on the west coast of Norway, close to towns and villages like Fosnavåg, Ulsteinvik, Volda, Ørsta, and Ålesund. This region of Norway is famous for its long fjords and steep, snow-clad mountains.
Throughout the years, several ships have sunk near Runde on the Norwegian coast. Some of them are said to be ships from the Netherlands and Spain, loaded with gold and silver.
One ship from the Netherlands, the Akerendam, was a newly built vessel which set sails from an island called Texel in Netherlands on 19 January 1725. Akerendam was a part of the Dutch merchant fleet, headed for Batavia (Indonesia) loaded with gold and silver coins to be used for the trade of spices in the Far East. The ship got caught in a storm in the North Sea, and the Akerendam disappeared into the north. The ship went down on the north side of Runde, and the whole crew of 200 was lost at sea. The inhabitants of Runde started to find parts of the ship that was washed up at its shore, including dead crew members.
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