Kysnesstranda is a village in western Jondal

Jondal

Jondal is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Jondal was separated from Strandebarm in 1846.-Name:The Old Norse form of the name was Jónardalr. The first element is an old rivername Jón and the last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale"...

 municipality, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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From 1837 Kysnesstranda was administratively a part of Strandebarm

Strandebarm

Strandebarm is a former municipality in Hordaland county, Norway.It was created in 1837 as Strandebarm formannskapsdistrikt. In 1863 the rural district Jondal, located on the opposite shore of the Hardangerfjord, was separated from Strandebarm to constitute a municipality of its own...

 municipality, whose territory was located on both sides of the Hardangerfjord

Hardangerfjord

With a length of , the Hardangerfjord in the county of Hordaland in Norway is the third largest fjord in the world and the second largest in Norway. The surrounding district is called Hardanger....

. In 1826 the district west of the fjord was separated from Strandebarm to create the new municipality Jondal; however, the village Kysnesstranda and the surrounding district remained a part of Strandebarm despite its location in Jondal.

On 1 January 1964, when Strandebarm municipality was to be incorporated into its neighbor Kvam

Kvam

Kvam is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. The parish of Vikør was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Parts of Strandebarm were merged with Kvam on 1 January 1965...

, Kysnesstranda was moved to Jondal. Kysnesstranda had 100 inhabitants at the time.