Editing Andøy Municipality (section)

==General information==
[[File:Bleik andøya.jpg|thumb|left|Andenes and Bleik are located on the northern part of [[Andøya]]]]
The municipality of Andøy was established as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 due to the work of the [[Schei Committee]]. Andøy Municipality was created from the merger of [[Andenes Municipality]] (population: 3,812), [[Bjørnskinn Municipality]] (population: 1,835), and [[Dverberg Municipality]] (population: 1,719). Initially, the new Andøy Municipality had 7,366 residents. The municipal boundaries have not changed since that time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=no}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality is named after the island on which it is located, [[Andøya]] ({{langx|non|Amdarøy}}). The first element is the [[genitive case]] of the old uncompounded name of the island {{lang|non|Ǫmd}} which has an unknown meaning. The last element is {{wikt-lang|no|øy}} which means "[[island]]".<ref name="snl">{{Cite web |last=Store norske leksikon |author-link=Store norske leksikon |title=Andøy |url=http://snl.no/And%C3%B8y |access-date=2012-08-05 |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4i5MAQAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Nordlands amt |date=1905 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=16 |location=Kristiania, Norge |page=404 and 411 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 7 January 1983. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]], a schnecke [[argent]] from base [[Dexter and sinister|sinister]] to sinister"'' ({{langx|no|Delt av blått og sølv ved virvelsnitt mot venstre}}). This means the arms have a [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) that is divided by a [[Line (heraldry)|line]] called a ''schnecke'' (a swirling counter-clockwise spiral design that is looks like a [[Ocean surface wave|wave]]). The field located below the line has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[argent]] which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The tincture above the line is blue. The colors and design of the arms were chosen as a symbol for the fact that the municipality is situated at the [[sea]] and that [[fishing]] is important economically to the municipality. The arms were designed by [[Hallvard Trætteberg]] after an idea of Henry Oddlo Erichsen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Andøy |access-date=2023-01-29 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Andøy, Nordland (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-18-71.html |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1983-03-08 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LF/forskrift/1983-01-07-29 |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref>

===Churches===
The [[Church of Norway]] has three parishes ({{lang|no|sokn}}) within Andøy Municipality. It is part of the [[Vesterålen prosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size:medium"|'''''Churches in Andøy'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|Andenes||[[Andenes Church]]||[[Andenes]]||1876
|-
|Bjørnskinn||[[Bjørnskinn Church]]||[[Bjørnskinn]]||1885
|-
|rowspan="2"|Dverberg||[[Dverberg Church]]||[[Dverberg]]||1843
|-
|[[Fornes Chapel]]||[[Fornes, Nordland|Fornes]]||1965
|}

===Rocket Range===
[[Andøya Space]], formerly Andøya Rocket Range, is a civilian rocket range located a few kilometres south of Andenes. As of 2022, construction is in progress for a spaceport capable of launching small satellites. Andøya Space supports research as well as providing educational programming and military work. It also operates another launch site in [[Ny-Ålesund]], Svalbard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About ASC |url=https://www.andoyaspace.no/about-asc/ |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>