Hafrsfjord

Hafrsfjord or Hafrsfjorden is a fjord in the Stavanger Peninsula in Rogaland County, Norway. The nine-kilometre 5.6 mi long fjord forms the border between the municipalities of Stavanger and Sola. On the west facet of the fjord is the large village of Tananger, at the south is the village of Solakrossen, and at the east quit of the fjord is the borough of Madla within the metropolis of Stavanger. The Mollebukta bay area, placed at the innermost part of the fjord, is the website of a famous seashore and the Sverd i Fjell statues. The only bridge over the fjord is the Hafrsfjord Bridge which runs among Kvernevik in Stavanger and Jasund inside the village of Tananger in Sola. Hafrsfjord is likewise the name of a neighborhood delomrade inside the borough of Madla in Stavanger. It has a population of four,003, distributed on a place of five.Seventy eight square kilometers 2.23 squaremi.

Hafrsfjord is likewise the region of the KNM Harald Harfagre, the Basic Training Establishment for the Royal Norwegian Navy. The camp had been used for army purposes when you consider that 1871 and in 1934 it became renamed Madlaleiren. In 1952, Parliament determined that the Navy's boot camp might be introduced to the camp and additionally that the Navy would officially take over the camp. Three years later, the camp turned into named KNM Harald Harfagre. Today KNM Harald Harfagre is the foremost schooling camp for each the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Officer Candidate School for the Navy moved the consumption and fundamental schooling from Horten to KNM Harald Harfagre throughout the summer season of 2005.