Utøy

Utøy or Utøya is a village area in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village sits about halfway between the village of Vangshylla (to the southwest) and the village of Sakshaug (to the northeast). The village of Kjerknesvågen lies about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to the north and the Trondheimsfjord lies just to the south. The "Utøy area" generally includes the area around the village which is the southern part of the Inderøya peninsula.

Economy

The predominant employment in for the Utøy area is agriculture, as in the rest of Inderøy, in addition to functioning as a suburb of Steinkjer, Verdal, and Levanger. There is no notable industry, but the area has a Coop Marked grocery store, Utøy School, kindergarten, and amateur theatre.

At nearby Vangshylla there is a hotel that specializes in fishing tourism in the fjord, a boat harbor, and also located there is the Skarnsund Bridge that when it opened in 1991 was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world and connects the Mosvik area to Innherred.

Notable residents

Notable people from Utøy include Willy Ustad, a novelist; Ole Richter, Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm, and actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal.

References

1. Battle of Utoy Creek
2. Utøy School
3. Utoy
4. Utoy, Georgia
5. Utoy (TV series)
6. Utoy Cemetery
7. Atlanta
8. Utoy Creek
9. Atlanta campaign
10. Stone Mountain
11. Achernar Island
12. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
13. List of American Civil War battles
14. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
15. Gone with the Wind (novel)
16. CNN Center
17. List of oldest structures in Atlanta
18. World of Coca-Cola
19. List of battles 1801–1900
20. Outer Island