Nusfjord
1836
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landscape
No road reached Nusfjord until 1967, and that is a large part of why the village is still whole. It sits in a narrow, steep-sided inlet on the southeast side of Flakstadøya, opening south onto Vestfjorden with almost no arable ground…
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- 1873
A prayer house was raised by voluntary labour, built by the fishing community itself rather than by a hired crew. It gave the settlement a room for worship of its own among the working buildings of the harbour.
- 1907
A power station was built with a stone dam at the outlet of Mellomvatnet, among the earliest plants of its kind in northern Norway. It drew on the lake water above the village and gave the fishing station a supply of electricity of its…
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