Gjermundnes
{{short description|Hamlet in Vestnes Municipality, Norway}}
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|settlement_type = Hamlet
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = Norway
|subdivision_type1 = Region
|subdivision_name1 = Western Norway
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = Møre og Romsdal
|subdivision_type3 = District
|subdivision_name3 = Romsdal
|subdivision_type4 = Municipality
|subdivision_name4 = Vestnes Municipality
|timezone1 = CET
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|postal_code_type = Post Code
|postal_code = 6392 Vikebukt
|coordinates = {{coord|62.6304|7.16748|region:NO_type:city|display=inline,title}}
|elevation_m = 6
|elevation_footnotes = {{Cite web |title=Gjermundnes, Vestnes |url=https://www.yr.no/nb/v%C3%A6rvarsel/daglig-tabell/1-189460/Norge/M%C3%B8re%20og%20Romsdal/Vestnes/Gjermundnes |access-date=2025-04-13 |publisher=yr.no}}}}
Gjermundnes{{Cite web |title=Informasjon om stadnamn |url=https://stadnamn.kartverket.no/fakta/605264 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Norgeskart |publisher=Kartverket |language=no}} is a hamlet on the east side of the mouth of Tres Fjord in Vestnes Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies a short distance to the northeast of the village of Vikebukt. Gjermundnes is also the name of the peninsula where the hamlet is located.
The village includes the historic Gjermundnes Farm and an agricultural school,{{Cite news |last=Otterlei |first=Inger |date=November 27, 2013 |title=Nybygg på Gjermundnes |url=http://www.smp.no/nyheter/nordre/article8697831.ece |access-date=January 20, 2018 |work=Sunnmørsposten}} which is the only agricultural school in Møre og Romsdal county.{{Cite news |last=Harstad |first=Lisbet |date=February 7, 2016 |title=Jon Georg Dales sjarmøretappe |url=http://www.nationen.no/landbruk/jon-georg-dales-sjarmaretappe-2/ |access-date=January 20, 2018 |work=Nationen}} It is also the location of the Møre og Romsdal Agricultural Museum.{{Cite web |title=Landbruksmuseet for Møre og Romsdal, Gjermundnes |url=http://mr.kulturnett.no/institusjon/landbruksmuseet-m%C3%B8re-og-romsdal-gjermundnes |access-date=January 19, 2018}}{{Cite web |title=Gjermundnes |url=https://mrfylke.no/content/download/251568/2025819/version/1/file/Informasjonsplakatar%2B-%2BGjermundnes.pdf |access-date=January 19, 2018 |website=Møre og Romsdal fylkeskommune |publisher=Vestnes kommune}}
Landslide
Just before 8:00 pm on February 22, 1756, a landslide with a volume of {{convert|12,000,000|to|15,000,000|m3|cuyd|abbr=off}} — the largest known landslide in Norway in historic time — traveled at high speed from a height of {{convert|400|m|ft|0}} on the side of the mountain Tjellafjellet into the Langfjorden {{convert|40|km|mi|0}} from Gjermundnes. The slide generated three megatsunamis in the immediate area in the Langfjorden and the Eresfjorden with heights of {{convert|40|to|50|m|ft|0}}. Damaging waves, although reduced in size, reached Gjermundnes.{{Cite web |title=Hoel, Christer, "The Tjelle Rock Avalanche in 1756," fjords.com Retrieved June 22, 2020 |url=https://www.fjords.com/rock-avalanches-tjelle/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804005621/https://www.fjords.com/rock-avalanches-tjelle/ |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |access-date=June 24, 2020}}