Råna
mountain in Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Råna is a mountain in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The mountain sits on the municipal border between Ørsta Municipality and Sykkylven Municipality. It is part of Hjelledalstindane mountains in the Sunnmørsalpene range. The 1,586-metre (5,203 ft) tall mountain is located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the village of Store-Standal in Ørsta Municipality and about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of the village of Straumgjerde in Sykkylven Municipality.
“Råna” enters the record as mountain in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Råna, mountain and Møre can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Råna” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Råna, mountain and Møre provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6516521. Authority coordinates are 62.275, 6.574. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Råna” 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.