Kvam, Oppland
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Kvam is a village in Gudbrandsdalen situated along the Gudbrandsdalslågen
river. The place lies in Nord-Fron
municipality in Oppland
County, Norway
. During the military campaign in Norway in 1940, Kvam was the scene of a large military action between German and British soldiers. The place has a British military cemetery and its own railway station. Its population was 832 in 2006.
Gudbrandsdalslågen
The Gudbrandsdalslågen river flows through the Gudbrandsdal of Norway.The Gudbrandsdalslågen begins in the lake Lesjaskogsvatnet , which lies in Lesja municipality in Oppland. Lesjavatn is the only lake in Norway which has two outlets; they flow into two of Norway’s more famous rivers...
river. The place lies in Nord-Fron
Nord-Fron
Nord-Fron is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vinstra. The old municipality of Fron was divided into Nord-Fron and Sør-Fron in 1851...
municipality in Oppland
Oppland
is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....
County, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. During the military campaign in Norway in 1940, Kvam was the scene of a large military action between German and British soldiers. The place has a British military cemetery and its own railway station. Its population was 832 in 2006.