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Fiskå is a village in Strand municipality in
Rogaland Rogaland () is a county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 479,892. The admin ...
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 village is located along the Årdalsfjorden, about northeast of the village of
Tau Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ, or \boldsymbol\tau; el, ταυ ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English ...
. The small farming village of Holta is located a short distance south of Fiskå. The lake
Vostervatnet Vostervatnet is a lake in the municipality of Strand in Rogaland county, Norway. The lake lies in the northwestern part of Strand, just south of the Fognafjorden. The village of Tau lies about southwest of the lake. The main outflow of the ...
lies just up the hill to the south of the village. The lake drains out through the river Fiskåna which flows through the village of Fiskå on its way to the fjord. All of the school children from northern Strand go to school in Fiskå. The ''Fiskå mølle''
mill Mill may refer to: Science and technology * * Mill (grinding) * Milling (machining) * Millwork * Textile manufacturing, Textile mill * Steel mill, a factory for the manufacture of steel * List of types of mill * Mill, the arithmetic unit of the A ...
has been grinding corn and selling it for centuries. It is one of the most significant businesses in the area.


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Villages in Rogaland Strand, Norway {{Rogaland-geo-stub