HAUGESUND

town, Rogaland fylke (county), southwestern Norway. A North Sea port, Haugesund is a shipbuilding and repair centre and has a 928-foot (283-metre) drydock that was the largest in Scandinavia at its completion in 1979. The town also engages in aluminum processing and textile weaving. It is the base for a large herring fleet and has fish canneries. Haugesund is served by the Bergen-Stavanger hydrofoil ferry. Just north of the town is Harald's Hill, where Harald I Fairhair, first king of all Norway, supposedly is buried. The site is commemorated by a monument, erected at the millenary celebration (1872) of Harald's final victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord. The Haugesund museum houses a collection of local antiquities. Pop. (1995 est.) mun., 29,073.