| Tustna kommune | |||
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| — Former Municipality — | |||
| Satellite image of Tustna from NASA | |||
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| Location in Møre og Romsdal | |||
| Municipality ID | NO-1572 | ||
| Adm. Center | Gullstein | ||
| Created from | Edøy in 1874 | ||
| Merged into | Aure in 2006 | ||
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Location in Møre og Romsdal |
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Nordmøre, Norway |
| Area | 89 km2 (34.4 sq mi) |
| Length | 13 km (8.1 mi) |
| Width | 10 km (6 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 896 m (2,940 ft) |
| Highest point | Skarven |
| Norway | |
| County | Møre og Romsdal |
| Municipality | Aure |
Tustna is an island and a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative centre was Gullstein. The island is located in the present-day municipality of Aure. The island lies between the islands of Golma (to the west) and Stabblandet and Solskjel (to the east).
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. 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, a small part of Tustna on the island of Ertvågsøy (population: 85) was moved to Aure. On 1 January 2006, Tustna was merged into the municipality of Aure. At the end, Tustna had a population of 1,006.[1][2][3]
The municipality was named after the island of Tustna. The Old Norse form of the name in unknown (the name of the island is first mentioned on a Dutch map from 1623: "Toester"). It might be derived from the word 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.[4]