[Dx-qsl] Karmoy I.

[Tom Anderson]

Casey:

I found the following at: http://www.dxawards.com/DXAwardDir/norway.htm
so it appears Akrehamn is on Karmoy.  But I must need a new National
Geographic atlas (my current one is 1981) as I couldn't even find
Akrehamn (a place of 9,000 or so per the World Gazetteer
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/c/c_no.htm#pl_3 ) on Karmoy Is., but yet
they showed my wife's hometown in Central Texas  that only has 1,200
population. 

Also: http://www.skole.karmoy.kommune.no/wboe/klasse9c/9eng.htm
will confirm Akrehamn is on Karmoy, although it doesn't show it on the
map on that web page.
 
FYI a little known tidbit of historical information: the copper for the
plates on that cover the Statue of Liberty came from a copper mine near
Karmoy, but the mine was owned by the French.
http://amsterdam.park.org/Guests/Stavanger/statue.htm

Also, Akrehamn was sure hard to find on the internet, most of the pages
that list it are in Norwegian, which gave my browser fits.

Hope this helps.

Tom, WW5L/7P8TA

Also:
Karmoy Island Award

Issued by the Karmoy Society of NRRL. Europeans must work 10 stations on
Karmoy Island; all others
5. No band, mode or time restrictions. SWL OK. GCR list and fee of $US10
or 10 IRCs to:
Karmoygruppen Av NRRL, N-4270 Akrehamn, Norway. (Karmoy Island measures
some 175 square Km
and has a population of some 35,000. "Here we find traditions leading
back to the age of the Norse Sagas.
Grave-mounds and stone monuments are witnesses of past greatness from
the old times and many
valuable remnants tell about this." 

Casey Bell wrote:
> 
> Can anyone confirm that AKREHAMN is on the Norwegian Isle of Karmoy?  If so, the card I've been trying to get for EU-055 won't be a 'counter'.
> Thanks a lot,
> Casey/KQ4YI
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