Skogsøya is an island in

Øksnes Municipality Øksnes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the northwestern part of the large island of Langøya, which is a part of the traditional region of Vesterålen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village o ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

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 island lies off the west coast of the large island of

Langøya Langøya is the third largest island of Norway (outside of Svalbard), with an area of . The island is a part of the Vesterålen archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. The island includes the municipalities of Bø and Øksnes as well as parts ...

, just west of the village of Myre. The highest point on the island is the tall mountain Sørsandtinden. The island has just 26 residents on it (in 2017), down from a high of several hundred residents in the 1930s. Most of the population lives along the southern coast of the island, where the historic

Øksnes Church Øksnes Church ( no, Øksnes kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Øksnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern tip of the island of Skogsøya. It is one of the churches for the Øksnes paris ...

is located. The municipal administration for Øksnes was historically located on this island, but it was moved to the village of Myre on the main island of

during the 20th century. Myre from Øksnesheia

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Islands of Nordland Øksnes {{Nordland-island-stub

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