Gimsøya

Gimsøy is a Norwegian island in the municipality Vågan Fylke Nordland in Lofoten. The island is wedged between the two main islands of Lofotkette Austvågøy and Vestvågøy the east and west. The E 10 crosses the south of the island, the two Sunde Gimsøystraumen and Sundklakkstraumen.

Geography

Gimsøy falls quite out of the landscape context of the otherwise mountainous and rugged Lofoten. Only in the southeast rises up to 760 m high mountain chain, which opens easily mountable and a good view. The remaining two thirds of the landscape are covered with peat bogs. This arctic tundra landscape offered in past times the single fuel on the Lofoten Islands. The peat was operated on a large scale.

With the loss of this latter-day work branch, the population declined sharply and it spread to the neighboring communities. For 20 years, the whole island is a nature reserve, so that even a towed into consideration airfield project was dropped. The situation would have been quite an ideal location between the main islands. The Norwegian oil boom also opens up more and more to the north with the south scarce resources.

With the exception of E 10 leading around the island municipal road is a dirt road, but which offers a beautiful view of the island world.

The island has a kindergarten, a primary school, a grocery store and a co-operative of Agriculture and Fisheries.