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![[Flag of Steigen]](../images/n/no-18-48.gif)
image by
Tomislav Šipek, 10 November 2015
Here is flag and coat of arms of Steigen. Administrative center is
Leinesfjord.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1991-01-11-39?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 10 November 2015
![[COA of Steigen]](../images/n/no)18-48.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 10 November 2015
Blazon: I gull tre svarte øksehoder i skrå rekke. In English: Or three axe
blades sable in bend.
Approved by the royal resolution of 11 January 1991 after a drawing by Henry
Tømmerås, the municipal cultural secretary at the time.
Source:
http://www.steigen.kommune.no/kommunevaapen.111188.no.html
The Viking axes were chosen to represent the link the municipality has with the
past, while three of them stand for the three municipalities that merged to form
the current one in 1964.
Željko Heimer, 14 November 2015
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