Aursjøen

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title: "Aursjøen" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["molde-municipality", "lesja-municipality", "lakes-of-innlandet", "lakes-of-møre-og-romsdal", "reservoirs-in-norway"] description: "Lake in Møre og Romsdal, Norway" topic_path: "geography/norway" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aursjøen" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Lake in Møre og Romsdal, Norway ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox body of water"]

Field	Value
name	Aursjøen
image	Aursjøen.jpg
caption	View of the Aursjøen lake
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	9
mapframe-caption	Interactive map of the lake
coordinates
location	Møre og Romsdal and
Innlandet, Norway
type	partly reservoir and partly natural freshwater lake
outflow	Aura River
basin_countries	Norway
date-built	1953
length	23 km
width	2 km
area	36.38 km2
shore	70.67 km
elevation	856 m
islands	numerous islets
reference	NVE
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Aursjøen is a lake in Norway on the border between Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county and Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county. The 36.38 km2 lake sits at an elevation of 856 m above sea level and is about 70.67 km around.

The lake was dammed up in 1953 to provide water for the Aura power station. It flooded together with the nearby lake Gautsjøen. The water in lake Aursjøen flows out to the river Aura which flows through the Eikesdalen valley and eventually to the lake Eikesdalsvatnet.

References

References

1. "Innsjødatabase".
2. "Informasjon om stadnamn". [[Norwegian Mapping Authority.
3. {{Cite SNL. Aursjøen. Aursjøen. 2025-03-23. Rosvold. Knut A.. 2024-11-26

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