Gimsøysand or Gimsøy is a village in
Vågan Municipality
Vågan ( sme, Vuogát) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Svolvær. Some of the villages in Vågan include Digermulen, ...
in
Nordland 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 the ...
. The village is located on the northeastern shore of the island of
Gimsøya
Gimsøya is an island in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Gimsøya is situated between the islands of Austvågøya and Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago. The island has a population (2016) of 181.
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, southeast of the villages of Saupstad and Vinje.
Gimsøy Church is located in the village. The church is built of wood. It was
consecrated on 18 October 1876 and has 300 seats. The church was repaired after storms in 1887 and 1906, and also repaired in 1954–55.
The village was the
administrative centre of the old municipality of
Gimsøy which existed from 1856 until 1964.
References
Vågan
Villages in Nordland
Lofoten
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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