Landscape and livelihoods in Andøy
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Andøy combines fishing settlements, extensive peatlands and space activity. Andenes and the research community around Andøya Space lie in northern Andøya; farming villages follow the eastern coast and the municipality’s part of Hinnøya.
The broad coastal plain creates an unusually open landscape for Vesterålen. Mountains rise as distinct ridges above the peatlands rather than forming a continuous mountain mass.




