Lurøy is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties , and 430 municipalities...

 in Nordland

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

 county

Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 430 municipalities...

, Norway

Norway

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. It is part of the Helgeland

Helgeland

Helgeland is the most southerly district in Northern Norway. Generally speaking, Helgeland refers to the part of Nordland county that is located south of the Arctic Circle. The district covers an area of about , with nearly 79,000 inhabitants...

 traditional region

Districts of Norway

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. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lurøy. Lurøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837...

). The new municipality of Træna

Træna

Træna is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Husøya. Træna was separated from the municipality of Lurøy in 1872....

 was separated from Lurøy in 1872.

The municipality is located on the coast just south of the arctic circle

Arctic Circle

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, on the western edge of Saltfjellet

Saltfjellet

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. The Lurøygården (Lurøy Farm) is a more than 200 year old renaissance

Renaissance

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 garden with old plants, a pool, and a nearly 20 meter high Copper Beech.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish

Parish

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) is named after the island of Lurøya

Lurøya

Lurøya is the largest island in Tiholmane, part of Tusenøyane, an island group south of Edgeøya.-References:* Norwegian Polar Institute...

 (Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

: Lúðrøy), since the first church was built there. The first element is lúðr which means "hollowed log

Logging

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" (here probably referring to the form of the mountain of the island), the last element is øy which means "island

Island

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".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

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 is from modern times. They were granted on 22 August 1986. The arms show a buoy

Buoy

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, an appropriate symbol for a municipality which is dependent on fishing

Fishing

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 and sailing

Sailing

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