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Lofoten Islands - Culture |
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The Island is dominated by a long mountain ridge running from northeast to southwest. About 90% of the population lives in the village Sorland where the administration is located, together with a doctor and a registered nurse, as well as the library. Flakstad Municipality consists of Flakstad Island and the northern tip of Moskenes Island. The origin of the name Flakstad is debatable. It might derive from the word "flag", meaning "cliff". An older name for the island was "Vargfot", meaning "wolf's paw".
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The principal islands are Austvagoy, Gimsoy,Vestvagoy, Flakstadoy, Moskenesoy and Rost
Rost and its 365 islands, holms and skerries. The largest of them, with it's highest point just barely 12 m above sea level, is Rostlandet. Further south, the islands of Storfjellet, Vedoya, Trenyken and Hernyken loom like gigantic monuments in the water. Mount Storfjellet is the highest of these mountains, reaching a height of 259 metres above sea level.
The entire population of this municipality is to be found on Rostlandet and a couple of lesser islands with which it is connected by roads. Here, too, we find the municipal administration offices, a primary school, a nursery, shops, restaurant, post office, bank, air strip, and fish landing facilities.
Vagan Municipality includes almost all of the islands of Austvagoy, Gimsoy and a number of small islands, among Skrova. A small edge of the island Hinnoya also belongs to Vagan. Svolvor is the "capital" of Lofoten, and an important junction for the entire region. The town is also the largest gateway to Lofoten for the steadily increasing tourist traffic.
Vestvagoy island, which was divided into four municipalities, those of Borge, Busknes, Hol
and Valberg, until 1963. The western and southern parts of Vestvagoy are dominated by tall steep mountains. The north and south are also mountainous, but here the mountains are not as steep nor as tall as in the west and south. Between the mountains, the land stretches out to form a wide valley, Lofoten's principal agricultural area. Vestvagoy is actually the second largest agricultural municipality in Nordland County Moskenes municipality covers the southern part of Moskenes Island, where the landscape has been sculpted by glaciers and other elemental forces that have turned it into one of the wildest and most fascinating spots in Norway.
Hermannsdalstind, altitude of 1029 m, the highest mountain in Western Lofoten.