Ramberg is the

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Flakstad Municipality Flakstad is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of the island group Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is ...

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county,

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. The village is located on the island of

Flakstadøya Flakstadøya is an island in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. The entire island lies within Flakstad Municipality with the Vestfjorden on the east side of the island and the Norwegian Sea on the west side of the island. Geog ...

in the

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. It has approximately 350 inhabitants. The

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highway passes through Ramberg. Ramberg has a library, a small shopping centre with a supermarket including postal services, an unmanned petrol station, a restaurant and pub, and a bank. The youth club regularly shows films in the community hall which is also used for functions. Ramberg school, located by the beach, caters for students from 1st to 10th grade and has both a swimming pool and a high standard synthetic grass soccer field. Ramberg is also famous for its white sand beach. Norway's Crown Prince, Prince Haakon kited at Ramberg beach during the Easter holidays in 2012.

Flakstad Church Flakstad Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Flakstad Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Flakstad. It is the church for the Flakstad parish which is part of the Lofoten prosti (deanery) i ...

is located about northeast of Ramberg in the small village of

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. It is the second church building to exist on this site since 1430. The timber used for the church comes from

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—the people of Flakstad exchanged fish for timber during the period of

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at that time. This is why the steeple has a

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look.

References

Flakstad Villages in Nordland Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Nordland-geo-stub