AALESUND

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AALESUND , a seaport of Norway, in Romsdal amt (county), 145 M. N. by E. from Bergen. Pop. (1900) 11,672. It occupies two of the outer islands of the west coast, Aspo and Norvii, which enclose the picturesque harbour. Founded in 1824, it is the principal shipping-place of Sondmore

district

DISTRICT

, and one of the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

stations of the herring fishery. Aalesund is adjacent to e Jorund and Geiranger fjords, frequented by tourists. From e at the head of Jorund a driving-route strikes

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

to the Nord-fjord, and from Merok on Geiranger another strikes inland to Otta, on the railway to Lillehammer and Christiania. Aalesund.. is a port of

call

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

for steamers between Bergen, Hull, Newcastle and Hamburg, and Trondhjem. A little to the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of the town are the ruins of the reputed castle of Rollo, the founder, in the 9th century, of the dynasty of the dukes of Normandy. On the 23rd of January 1904, Aalesund was the scene of one of the most terrible of the many conflagrations to which

Norwegian

NORWEGIAN

towns, built largely of

wood

, have been subject. Practically the whole town was destroyed, a

gale

aiding the flames, and the population had to leave the place in the night at the notice of a few minutes. Hardly any lives were lost, but the sufferings of the people were so terrible that assistance was sent from all parts of the kingdom, and by the German government, while the British government also offered it.

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