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Vesterålen is made up of several islands: Langøya, Andøya, Hadseløya, the western part of Hinnøya, the northern part of Austvågøya and several smaller islands. The landscape is mountainous, but the mountains have a more rounded shape compared to the mountains in Lofoten.
Map of Lofoten and Vesterålen in Norway with names of some major islands: Date: 8 September 2006: Source: own work, based on public domain gmt outline: Author: User:Daf-de: Other versions: Македонски
This is a list of islands of Norway sorted by name. For a list sorted by area, see List of islands of Norway by area. A. Andørja, viewed from Harstad Atløy.
Island Location Population Area (km²) Highest point Altitude (m) 1 Spitsbergen: Svalbard: 2,642 39,044 Newtontoppen: 1,713 2 Nordaustlandet: Svalbard: 0 14,443 Norddomen: 700 3 Edgeøya: Svalbard: 0 5,073 Caltexfjellet: 590 4 Barentsøya: Svalbard: 0 1,288 Schweinfurthfjellet: 590 5 Kvitøya: Svalbard: 0 682 270 6 Prince Charles Foreland ...
Langøya [1] is the third largest island of Norway (outside of Svalbard), with an area of 850.2 square kilometres (328.3 sq mi). The island is a part of the Vesterålen archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. The island includes Bø Municipality and Øksnes Municipality as well as parts of Sortland Municipality and Hadsel Municipality.
Inspectors found more than 800 environmental violations on the island, including raw sewage flowing into the sea. In 2017, the infamous LaBoracay party left more than 11 tons of rubbish on the island.
Besides the flat and largely continuous bog areas, Andøya also consists of steep mountain ranges reaching up to 700 metres (2,300 ft) high. The sharp peak of Kvasstinden is the highest point on the island at 705 metres (2,313 ft). Andøya Space, which was founded in 1962, is also located on the island near the Andøya Air Station. [3]
The Vesterålen islands consist of smaller and bigger islands with a huge variation in landscape. Ofoten, further inland, is a fjord landscape with high mountains, the highest is Storsteinfjellet in Narvik, 1,894 m above sea level, but the most well-known is Stetind, the national mountain of Norway. There are also glaciers, like Frostisen and ...