Å, Moskenes
Encyclopedia
Å is a village in the municipality of Moskenes
, in Lofoten
, Norway
.
, but now also features tourism
.
The town contains the Lofoten Stockfish Museum
and the Norwegian Fishing Village Museum
.
It is served by European route E10
; this part of it is also called King Olav's Road.
The place is sometimes referred to as Å i Lofoten ("i" means "in") to distinguish it from other places named Å. It has the postal address 8392 Sørvågen.
In May 2004 it became the starting point of a cycling trip from A to B (with B represented by Bee, Nebraska
).
á f '(small) river'.
Moskenes
Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The area of the municipality comprises the southern part of Moskenesøya. It is part of the Lofoten traditional region...
, in Lofoten
Lofoten
Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.-Etymology:...
, 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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Overview
Å is traditionally a fishing village, specialising in stockfishStockfish
Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks on the foreshore, called "hjell". The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years...
, but now also features tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
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The town contains the Lofoten Stockfish Museum
Lofoten Stockfish Museum
Lofoten Stockfish Museum is a museum devoted to Norwegian fishing and stockfish. The museum is located in the village of Å i Lofoten in the municipality of Moskenes, in the Lofoten islands in the county of Nordland, Norway. Norway...
and the Norwegian Fishing Village Museum
Norwegian Fishing Village Museum
The Norwegian Fishing Village Museum is a museum devoted to Norwegian fishing in the village of Å, Moskenes in the municipality of Moskenes, in Lofoten in north-west Norway....
.
It is served by European route E10
European route E10
European route E 10 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Å, Norway and ends in Luleå, Sweden. The road is about 850 km in length...
; this part of it is also called King Olav's Road.
The place is sometimes referred to as Å i Lofoten ("i" means "in") to distinguish it from other places named Å. It has the postal address 8392 Sørvågen.
In May 2004 it became the starting point of a cycling trip from A to B (with B represented by Bee, Nebraska
Bee, Nebraska
Bee is a village in Seward County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 223 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bee is located at ....
).
The name
The village (originally a farm) is first mentioned in 1567 ("Aa"). The name is from NorseNorth Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages...
á f '(small) river'.