Vinstre

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title: "Vinstre" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["øystre-slidre-municipality", "vang-municipality", "lakes-of-innlandet"] description: "Lake in Innlandet, Norway" topic_path: "general/oystre-slidre-municipality" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinstre" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Lake in Innlandet, Norway ::

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

Field	Value
name	Vinstre
image	Vinstre 001.jpg
image_bathymetry	La2-demis-bygdin-annotated.png
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	9
mapframe-caption	Interactive map of the lake
coordinates
location	Innlandet, Norway
basin_countries	Norway
length	17 km
width	3 km
area	27.87 km2
max-depth	37 m
elevation	1032 m
reference	NVE
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Vinstre is a lake in Innlandet county, Norway. The 27.87 km2 lake lies in Øystre Slidre Municipality and the very western tip of the lake crosses over into the neighboring Vang Municipality. The lake sits at an elevation of 1032 m above sea level. Vinstre was regulated in connection with the construction of the Øvre Vinstra hydroelectric power plant. The lake Bygdin flows into this lake and on the opposite end, it flows out into the dammed lake Sandvatnet/Kaldfjorden/Øyvatnet which is the headwaters for the river Vinstra.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Jotunheimen_1.jpg"] ::

Along its northern shore runs the Jotunheimvegen summer toll road, built in the 1950s as a result of hydroelectricity development affecting the operation of the earlier milk boat service.

Name

The name of the lake is (maybe) derived from the verb vinda which means "bend", "twist", or "wind" with the suffix -str added to the end. The name is therefore referring to the twisted shape of the lake. The river Vinstra starts from the lake.

References

References

1. "Innsjødatabase".
2. "Informasjon om stadnamn". [[Norwegian Mapping Authority.
3. "Vinstre Innsjø, Øystre Slidre". NRK, Meteorologisk institutt.
4. {{Cite SNL. Vinstre. Vinstre. 2025-08-26. Vinjar. Asbjørn. 2024-11-26
5. "Jotunheimvegen - Historie". Skåbu Regnskap AS.

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