Country Norway County Møre og Romsdal Municipality ID NO-1572 Area 141 km² | Region Western Norway District Nordmøre Adm. Center Gullstein Local time Monday 4:25 AM | |
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Tustna is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village of Gullstein. The municipality is located in the present-day Aure Municipality. The municipality included the main islands of Tustna, Stabblandet, and Solskjelsøya, as well as many smaller, surrounding islets between the Edøyfjorden and the Vinjefjorden. In 2006, when the municipality was merged into Aure, it was 141 square kilometres (54 sq mi).
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Map of 6590 Tustna, Norway
History
Tustna was originally a part of the municipality of Edøy (see formannskapsdistrikt). A meeting held on 17 March 1863 decided to build a church on Tustern (which was the name of the island at that time) and thereby gain status as a separate parish. Gullstein Church was built in the village of Gullstein on the eastern side of the island in 1864. A royal resolution of 3 May 1873 directed that Tustern be separated from Edøy to create a separate municipality. This happened on 1 January 1874. The new municipality had an initial population of 1,179. On 1 January 1965, the part of Tustna on the island of Ertvågsøy (population: 85) was transferred to neighboring Aure Municipality to the east. On 1 January 2006, all of Tustna Municipality was merged into Aure Municipality. At its end, Tustna had a population of 1,006.
Name
The municipality was named after the island of Tustna. The name of the island was first mentioned, as Toester, on a Dutch map from 1623. It may be derived from Old Norse þústr which means "staff" or "stick", and in that case it is probably referring to the form of one of the mountains on the island.