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Reine [3] is the administrative centre of Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The fishing village is located on the island of Moskenesøya in the Lofoten archipelago , above the Arctic Circle , about 300 kilometres (190 mi) southwest of the city of Tromsø .
The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine. Other villages include Sørvågen, Hamnøya, and Å. The 119-square-kilometre (46 sq mi) municipality is the 322nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Moskenes is the 338th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 954.
Moskenes Municipality, on the southern part of the island, has the villages of Å, Hamnøya, Moskenes, Reine, Sakrisøy, Sørvågen, and Tind, all located on the eastern side of the island. There were settlements on the western coast, but the last ones were abandoned in 1950s owing to severe storms.
Reine Church (Norwegian: Reine kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.It is located in the village of Reine.It is one of the two churches in the Moskenes parish which is part of the Lofoten prosti in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.
Hamnøya [2] is a small fishing village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.It is located on a small peninsula on the eastern side of the island of Moskenesøya, about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) northeast of the village of Reine, along the Vestfjorden.
Mastodons, distant relatives of modern elephants, lived in North America from about 3.75 million to 11,000 years ago, according to the Illinois State Museum. An adult mastodon stood between 8 and ...
Å (Norwegian pronunciation:, from å meaning "stream") or Å i Lofoten (lit. ' Å in Lofoten ') [2] is a village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.It is located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of the village of Sørvågen on the island of Moskenesøya, towards the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago.
Moskenes Municipality, a municipality in Nordland county, Norway; Moskenes (village), a village within Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway; Moskenes Church, a church in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway; Moskenes Island, or Moskenesøya, an island in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway