Nyttingnes is a small village area with 28 inhabitants and 9 houses in the municipality of Flora

Flora, Norway

Flora is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Florø, which was founded in 1860, has 8,448 inhabitants . The Eikefjord area, which is the second largest place in Flora, has about...

 in Sogn og Fjordane

Sogn og Fjordane

is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the town of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality while the largest town is Førde....

 county, 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...

. Nyttingnes is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northwest of Steinhovden

Steinhovden

Steinhovden is a village with 119 inhabitants in the municipality of Flora in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The village is located about southeast of Nyttingnes and about west of Eikefjord. The village area is divided into 6 farm areas: Seljeset, Høyvik, Holmesund, Steinhovden, Steinvik and...

 and about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) across the fjord

Fjord

Geologically, a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.-Formation:A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. Glacial melting is accompanied by rebound of Earth's crust as the ice...

 from Brandsøy

Brandsøy

Brandsøy is a village in the municipality of Flora in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located on both sides of small strait that separates the east end of the island of Bransøya and the mainland. The village is located about east of the town of Florø and about west of the village of...

. In recent history, there has been a negative demographic trend in this village. Nyttingnes is made up of the farms: Tunet, Bakken, Pergarden, Ludviggarden, Kvia, Opptun and Rabbane. Historically, the inhabitants were farmers and fishermen. The nearby Skårafjæra

Skårafjæra

Skårafjæra is a popular sandy beach in the municipal of Flora, Norway, between Nyttingnes and Steinhovden. The beach is surrounded by holidayhouses. Only two inhabitants live in the nearby area. The area is often visited by Norwegian, Italian , Dutch, Malaysian and German holidaymakers....

beach area is popular for many tourists.