Fugløya is an

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Gildeskål Municipality Gildeskål is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Bodø Region and the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipali ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

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. The island is very mountainous, with the highest point being the tall Hagtinden. The island has no permanent residents (as of 2016), but as recently as the 1960s, there were 124 residents living on the island. The island has several large bird colonies, including

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s. It lies in the Fugløyvær

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which includes about 140 small islands and this one large island. There were two main settlements on the island: Sør-Fugløy in the south and Nord-Fugløy in the north. Both are now used as vacation homes. The islands of Fleina,

Sør-Arnøya Sør-Arnøya is a small island in Gildeskål Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The island is located west of the neighboring island of Sandhornøya and south of the island of Nord-Arnøya. Sør-Arnøya and Nord-Arnøya are linked with ...

, Nord-Arnøya, and Sandhornøya lie several kilometers to the northeast.

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Gildeskål Islands of Nordland Uninhabited islands of Norway {{Nordland-island-stub

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