Vedavågen is a Norwegian

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...

 village with 2728 inhabitants, by the 1. of january 2009(source: http://www.karmoy.kommune.no/om-kommunen/demografi), living in about 900 households. It is situated between Åkrehamn

Åkrehamn

or Åkrahamn is a small town located on the west side of Karmøy in Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Haugaland...

 and Kopervik

Kopervik

Kopervik is the largest city on the island of Karmøy in the county of Rogaland, Norway and is the administrative centre of the municipality of Karmøy, and Kopervik have 8,192 inhabitants. It is part of the traditional district of Haugaland. -Population:...

 in the municipality of Karmøy

Karmøy

Karmøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located southwest of the city of Haugesund in the traditional district of Haugaland....

, neighbouring the municipality of Haugesund

Haugesund

is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.-Location:Haugesund was separated from Torvastad as a town and municipality of its own in 1855. The rural municipality of Skåre was merged with Haugesund on January 1, 1958. Haugesund is a small municipality, only 73 km²...

 in Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

. A side road of Riksvei 47 leads to the village. The main activities are service, industry and fishery. The local football club is named SK Vedavåg Karmøy.

External links

• A picture taken from the Salvøy bridge
• A map of the environment