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Eidangerfjorden

fjord in Porsgrunn, Norway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1772526 ↗
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Eidangerfjorden is a fjord in Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) long fjord stretches from the village area of Eidanger south to the Langesundsfjorden. The mouth of the Eidangerfjorden is located between the town of Brevik and the island of Sandøya. The largest island located in the fjord is Kattøya, located near the head of Eidangerfjorden.

The shipping harbor for the cement produced by Norcem is located on the Eidangerfjorden at Brevik. Further in, on the west shore, lies the village of Heistad. The towns of Stathelle and Brevik are situated at the junction of the Langesundsfjorden, Frierfjorden, and Eidangerfjorden.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Eidangerfjorden” is fjord in Porsgrunn, Norway. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Eidangerfjorden, fjord and Porsgrunn, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 104-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Eidangerfjorden, fjord and Porsgrunn is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Eidangerfjorden” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.