Øksfjord (Hinnøya)
| Øksfjord | ||
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| Waters | European Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Scandinavian peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 24 '36 " N , 15 ° 24' 18" E | |
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The Øksfjord is a fjord in the south of the Vesterålen - island Hinnøya in the Fylke (province) Nordland in Norway .
The fjord, a northern branch of the Vestfjord , extends in a generally northeastern direction for a length of 20 km into the interior of the island. At its end, only 5.7 km separate it from the southern end of the Gullesfjord , which means that the two almost cut the island in two.
The Øksfjord runs through a forested and largely uninhabited landscape, and only three or four smallest settlements can be found on its banks, the largest of them on Kvannkjosen, a western bay immediately north of the fjord entrance. In several places in the fjord salmon are raised in net pens.
About 1 km north of the existing only a few houses settlement Sommarset on the west bank extending in the east-west direction and up to the western island of leads Lofoten extensive European route E10 at its narrowest point over the fjord and there lying in the midst of small island Hudjordøya, next to which there is only about 100 m of water on both sides. North of the island one speaks of the “Innerfjorden”.
The large Austpollen bay branches off from the Innerfjorden about 4 km north of the bridge, while the fjord itself with the so-called Vestpollen, which is about 4 km long, describes a long left curve to the west and then ends east below Moysalen, the highest mountain on the island at 1262 m . Here, the fjord in created in 2003, 51.2 occurs shortly after the beginning of his Westkurve km 2 large Møysalen National Park one.