Official Name: | Storevar |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Norway Vestfold#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Vestfold |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Vestfold |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Sandefjord Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 3160 Stokke |
Coordinates: | 59.2028°N 10.3249°W |
Elevation M: | 36 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Storevar is a village in Sandefjord Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village is located along the Tønsbergfjorden, just south of the village of Melsomvik, about to the southeast of the large village of Stokke, and about to the north of the village of Råstad.
The 0.2km2 village had a population (2014) of 339 and a population density of . Since 2015, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by Statistics Norway, but instead it has been considered part of the Melsomvik urban area.[2]
There are three islands in the fjord just outside Storevar: Gåsøykalven, Gåsøy, and Ravnø. During winters, the ocean occasionally freezes and makes it possible to hike to the islands from the village.[3]