Sørvågen is a

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Moskenes Municipality Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality comprises the southern part of the island of Moskenesøya in the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine. O ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

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. It is located on the island of

Moskenesøya Moskenesøya () is an island at the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. The island is shared between Moskenes Municipality and Flakstad Municipality. The tidal whirlpool system known as Moskstraumen, one of th ...

in the

Lofoten Lofoten ( , ; ; ) is an archipelago and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches, and untouched lands. T ...

archipelago. The village of Å lies just to the south.

Moskenes Church Moskenes Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Moskenes, located immediately north of the village of Sørvågen. It is one of the two churches fo ...

is located in the northern part of the village along

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, in an area that is known as the village of Moskenes (although the two villages have grown together by

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and are now considered one urban area by

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). The village has a population (2023) of 403 and a

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of .

Tourism

The village has several

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and

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s in and around the village. It contains a local department of the ''Norsk Telemuseum'' (Norwegian Telecom Museum) which reflects the local history of

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. In 1861, the island became part of the Lofoten

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with a station in Sørvågen (which became the Sørvågen museum in 1914), being finally connected with Europe in 1867. In 1906, a wireless

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system was installed in Sørvågen—the second in Europe after Italy—connecting Sørvågen with

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References

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* Moskenes Villages in Nordland Populated places in Nordland Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Nordland-geo-stub