Kjerringøy is a village in

Bodø Municipality Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland count ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village is located about north of the town of Bodø, along the Karlsøyfjorden, just south of the entrance to the Folda fjord. The Kjerringøy Church is located in the village.

The

Kjerringøy trading post Kjerringøy trading post (''Kjerringøy handelssted'') is an open-air museum at Kjerringøy in Nordland, Norway. It is operated as part of the Nordland Museum of cultural history. History Kjerringøy trading post was established in the late ...

, a part of the

Nordland Museum Nordland Museum ( no, Nordlandsmuseet) is a museum located in the center of Bodø in Nordland, Norway. The museum is a central part of a larger consortium of 18 museum units in nine municipalities with the county of Nordland. Background The mus ...

, is located in the village. The trading post is well-preserved, with around 15 authentic buildings with interior. It is a popular tourist destination and is often used as a location for movies.iMDb: Filming Location Matching "Kjerringøy"
/ref> Historically, the village was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, L ...

of the old municipality of Kjerringøy which existed from 1906 until 1964.

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*http://www.kjerringoy.no *http://www.kjerringoy.info Bodø Villages in Nordland Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Nordland-geo-stub