Vågen, Nordland Explained

Official Name:Vågen
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Nordland#Norway
Pushpin Label:Vågen
Pushpin Label Position:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Norway
Subdivision Name1:Northern Norway
Subdivision Name2:Nordland
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Vesterålen
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Subdivision Name4:Bø Municipality
Utc Offset1:+01:00
Utc Offset1 Dst:+02:00
Postal Code Type:Post Code
Postal Code:8475 Straumsjøen
Coordinates:68.7776°N 14.4659°W
Elevation M:6
Elevation Footnotes:[1]

Vågen[2] is a village in Bø Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on the west side of the island of Langøya in the Vesterålen archipelago just west of the village of Nykvåg.

Geography

Vågen is connected to the neighboring village of Nykvåg by County Road 916, which branches off from County Road 915 in Nykvåg and runs east before circling around Nykvåg bay to the quay in Vågen.[3] The hill Gårdsnyken (127m (417feet))[4] rises northwest of Vågen. The Nykvåg/Nykan Nature Reserve, encompassing the Nykan islands, lies east of Vågen.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vågen, Bø (Nordland). yr.no. 2018-12-29.
  2. Web site: Informasjon om stadnamn. Norgeskart. Kartverket. no. 2024-08-15.
  3. Web site: Vegliste 2013: Fylkes- og kommunale veger. Nordland. 2013. Bodø: Statens vegvesen Region nord, p. 28. . 2014-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006043659/http://www.vegvesen.no/_attachment/410493/binary/706814?fast_title=Vegliste+2013+Nordland.pdf . 2014-10-06 . dead .
  4. https://snl.no/Nykv%C3%A5g Store norske leksikon: Nykvåg.
  5. https://snl.no/Nykan/B%C3%B8 Store norske leksikon: Nykan – Bø.