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Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...
, Norway. The island was used as an orphanage
Orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...
for more than hundred years, established by Lars Oftedal
Lars Oftedal (born 1838)
Lars Svendsen Oftedal was a Norwegian revivalist, priest, social reformer, politician, publicist and newspaper editor.-Personal life:...
in the late 1800s.