Fyksesund ( en, Fykse Sound)''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. 2003. Vol. 5. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, p. 696. is a

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...

in the municipality of Kvam in

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The long fjord is a branch of the main Hardangerfjorden. It sits between the villages of

Øystese Øystese is a village in the municipality of Kvam in Vestland county, Norway. It is located along the Hardangerfjord about east of the municipal centre of Norheimsund. Norwegian County Road 7 passes through the village. The village had a populat ...

and

Ålvik Ålvik is a village in the municipality of Kvam in Vestland county, Norway. The village "urban area" consists of the settlements of Ytre Ålvik og Indre Ålvik (outer and inner Ålvik) and Vikadal. The settlements are located on either side of a ...

, and it is surrounded by the Fyksesund Landscape Park. The fjord is spanned by the

Fyksesund Bridge The Fyksesund Bridge ( no, Fyksesundbrua) is a suspension road bridge in Vestland county, Norway. The bridge spans the Fyksesund fjord on Norwegian County Road 7, which goes between the villages of Øystese and Ålvik in the municipality of K ...

, which was opened by Crown Prince Olav in 1937.

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Fjords of Vestland Kvam {{Vestland-geo-stub

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