Haugesund

Haugesund is a city and municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The metropolis is the main population centre of the Haugaland place in northern Rogaland. The majority of the population of Haugesund lives in the essential city location surrounding the metropolis centre, with the northwestern a part of the municipality being fairly rural. The city is situated on a strategically critical sound, the Karmsundet, via which ships may want to bypass without traversing heavy seas. In the early years, the coastal waters off Haugesund were a massive source of herring, and the metropolis grew consequently.

Despite being barely a village back then, King Harald Fairhair lived at Avaldsnes, very near the contemporary metropolis of Haugesund. In the last many years, the town, like its neighbours, has been turning towards the petroleum enterprise, with the herring being lengthy long past. Despite being a reasonably young city, the regions round Haugesund were lands of energy at some point of the Viking Age. Harald Fairhair, the primary king of Norway, had his home at Avaldsnes, very close to the prevailing metropolis. Fairhair turned into buried at Haraldshaugen, a burial mound adjoining to the Karmsundet strait.