Sommarøy is a populated island in the western part of the municipality of Tromsø

Tromsø

Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...

, in Troms

Troms

or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, about 36 kilometres (22.4 mi) west of the city of Tromsø. The island is connected to Kvaløya island with the Sommarøy Bridge

Sommarøy Bridge

Sommarøy Bridge is a cantilever bridge from Kvaløya to Sommarøy in the Hillesøy area of the western part of the municipality of Tromsø in Troms county, Norway. The bridge is long and the longest span on the bridge is ....

. The village of Sommarøy covers the island as well as the neighboring island of Hillesøy

Hillesøy

Hillesøy is a former municipality in Troms county in Norway. It is located in the present-day municipalities of Tromsø and Lenvik and both sides of the Malangen fjord...

and many smaller surrounding islands. Its population (2009) is 230.