Trying to locate a city in Norway?

I understand that many immigrants took the name of their home city as their last name when entering the United States back in the early 1900's.

I'm trying to locate the city of Oines, Norway. I traveled to Norway quite awhile ago on a cruise and I remember looking at a map on the terminal dock in Norway. I thought that I had found the city on that map however with the time constraint of the cruise couldn't try and get to the town.

Looking at the maps on Bing and Yahoo, I can't locate the city of Oines on any of the maps.

Has anyone ever been to Oines Norway ? Does the town really exist ? Is their a map that I can locate the town on ?Trying to locate a city in Norway?
I was unable to find much information on Oines, Norway

It's coordinates are 67掳 14' 0" North latitude, 15掳 16' 0" East Longitude.

Oines position in Norway on a map http://www.mapquest.com/?q=67.233328,15.鈥?/a>

Here is a link to some webcam's near Oines http://www.the-webcam-network.com/Norway鈥?/a>

Here is a link to weather information for Oines, Norway http://www.worldweatheronline.com/weathe鈥?/a>Trying to locate a city in Norway?
Are you sure it isn't 脴rnes?Trying to locate a city in Norway?
Don't listen to IOWA MIKE, that's not a town on his map. If you can bear with me a few lines, I'll elaborate... You see, that Norwegian-Americans took the names of their hometown is a common misconception. This is based on an old Scandinavian tradition of taking surnames from their homes.

The traditional way of naming a farm in Scandinavia was to name it after the most prominent nearby geographical feature, like "Fossefjell" (Waterfall mountain) or 脜s氓ker (Hilly field). The people who owned the farm would from then on use the farm name as a surname (sometimes the local farming community evolved into a small town, hence the myth). When the following generations moved to different places, they brought their surnames with them. Therefore you cannot know for sure where your ancestry is from.

Many Norwegian-Americans "Americanized" their names after moving to the USA, as their original names were hard to pronounce for English speakers. I can't find anywhere called "Oines" on a map (you might have seen the town of 脴rnes at that cruise map), but your original surname was probably "脴ynes" (Island headland). The problem is of course that there are dozens of places in Norway with this name, according to the map. None of them are towns. The original farm of your family might not have existed for hundreds of years, at least I'll say that your chances of finding an intact family farm in one of those places are close to nil. I'm sorry I cannot help you further.