Gjermundnes
Gjermundnes is a hamlet in Norway on the east side of the mouth of Tres Fjord in the municipality of Vestnes. It is also the name of the peninsula where the district is located.
The village includes the historic Gjermundnes Farm and an agricultural school, which is the only agricultural school in Møre og Romsdal county. It is also the location of the Møre og Romsdal Agricultural Museum.
Just before 8:00 pm on February 22, 1756, a landslide with a volume of — the largest known landslide in Norway in historic time — traveled at high speed from a height of on the side of the mountain Tjellafjellet into the Langfjorden from Gjermundnes. The slide generated three megatsunamis in the immediate area in the Langfjorden and the Eresfjorden with heights of. Damaging waves, although reduced in size, reached Gjermundnes.
