Holta

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Holta is a small farming village in the municipality of Strand in Rogaland county, Norway. The farm is situated on the northern hills overlooking the lake Bjørheimsvatn. It is approximately Template:Convert northeast of the village of Tau and about Template:Convert south of the village of Fiskå. The city of Stavanger lies about Template:Convert southwest of Holta (via the Ryfylke Tunnel that goes under a large fjord).

On 9 August 1961, the Holtaheia Accident took place as a Vickers VC.1 Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia). A total of 34 students, two teachers and three crew members were killed.

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