Hadselfjorden or Hadselfjord is a
fjord in
Hadsel Municipality
Hadsel ( sme, Válafierda) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Vesterålen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Stokmarknes. Other villages in Hadsel include Fiskebøl, ...
in
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. The fjord lies in the
Vesterålen region, separating the island of
Hadseløya
Hadseløya or Hadseløy is an island in Hadsel Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Vesterålen region on the north side of the Hadselfjorden. The town of Stokmarknes is situated on the northern shore of the island and t ...
(on the north and west side of the fjord) from the islands of
Austvågøya and
Hinnøya
Hinnøya is the fourth-largest island in Norway, and the largest outside the Svalbard archipelago. The lies just off the western coast of Northern Norway. The island sits on the border of Nordland and Troms og Finnmark counties. The western pa ...
island (on the south and east side of the fjord). In the northeast, the Hadselfjorden connects with
Sortlandssund strait, which separates the islands of
Langøya and Hinnøya. In the southwest the fjord empties into the
Norwegian Sea.
A ferry crosses the fjord between the villages of
Melbu and
Fiskebøl.
See also
*
List of Norwegian fjords
This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway. In total, there are about 1,190 fjords in Norway and the Svalbard islands. The sortable list includes the lengths and locations of those fjords.
Fjords
See also
* List of gla ...
References
External links
Newspaper article about paddling on the Hadselfjord
Hadsel
Fjords of Nordland
Lofoten
Vesterålen
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