Onsala
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Onsala (Swedish pronunciation: locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 11,951 inhabitants in 2010.[1] It is also a 14 km long peninsula on the west coast of Sweden, facing Kattegat, 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Gothenburg. It dates back to the age of the vikings and was originally an area devoted to the god Odin, the name being a corruption of the old norse Odin's Sala. In English "The Halls of Odin" [3]
The population is around 12-14,000 with a densely inhabited east coast, mainly consisting of
jolly rogers
" at the foot end.
Onsala is also home to the Onsala Space Observatory, the Swedish national radio observatory.
Sports
The following sports clubs are located in Onsala:
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Onsala.
- ^ a b "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 19.
- ^ "Populärt kaparpar vilar på Odens sal - Halland - Göteborgs-Posten". Archived from the original on 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
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