Flosta

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Flosta

Coordinates58.53°, 8.93°

Demographic figures from Statistics Norway (SSB). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Flosta is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The 22.8-square-kilometre (8.8 sq mi) municipality existed from 1902 until its dissolution in 1962. It is currently part of the municipality of Arendal in Agder county. The administrative center of Flosta was at Staubø in the village of Kilsund. The municipality primarily encompassed the two islands of Flostaøya and Tverrdalsøya and about 9 square kilometres (3.5 sq mi) on the mainland just north of the islands including the villages of Eikeland, Borås, and Vatnebu.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

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Ludvig Holm-Olsen

Norwegian philologist (1914–1990)

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Aksel Lydersen

Professor in chemical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology

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Alfred Thommesen

Norwegian politician (1914-1988)

Signe Marie Stray Ryssdal

Norwegian politician

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Søren Hans Smith Sørensen

Norwegian politician (1885–1973)

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Wiggo Hanssen

Norwegian speed skater (1923–2007)

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Arthur Brox

Else Hagen

Norwegian painter (1914-2010)

Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen

football player and ship owner from Norway (1894-1962)

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Kristin Sørsdal

Norwegian translator

Tillie Baldwin

Norwegian performer

Lars Olsen Skjulestad

featured in the Norwegian Who's Who 1912

Jørn Wroldsen

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Gunnar Olsen

Norwegian priest

E

Egil Røed

Hans Kristian Ziegler

Norwegian painter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Flosta

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Juniper Carpet

Thera juniperata

Seen 2026-10-04

great stinging nettle

Urtica dioica

Seen 2026-09-25

Woodland Dor Beetle

Anoplotrupes stercorosus

Seen 2026-09-20

common polypody

Polypodium vulgare

Seen 2026-09-20

deer fern

Struthiopteris spicant

Seen 2026-09-20

Twenty-plume Moth

Alucita hexadactyla

Seen 2026-09-16

European Common Frog

Rana temporaria

Seen 2026-09-09

blusher

Amanita rubescens

Seen 2026-09-08

False Chanterelle

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

Seen 2026-09-08

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers