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LAURVIK, LARVIK

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 288 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LAURVIK, LARVIK or LAURVIG, a seaport of Norway, in Jarlsberg and Laurvik amt (county), at the head of a short fjord near the mouth of the Laagen river, 98 m. S.S.W. of Christiania by the Skien railway. Pop. (1900) 10,664. It has various
industries
 , including saw and planing mills, shipbuilding, glass-works and factories for
wood
 -pulp, barrels and
potato
  flour; and an active trade in exporting timber, ice,
wood
 -pulp and granite, chiefly to
Great
  Britain, and in importing from the same country coal and salt. The port has a depth of 18 to 24 ft. beside the quays. Four miles south is Fredriksvaern, formerly a station of the
Norwegian
 
fleet
  and the seat of a naval
academy
 . Laurviks Bad is a favourite spa, with
mineral
  and
sulphur
  springs and mud-baths.


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