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Rognaldsvåg is a
fishing village A fishing village is a village, usually located near a fishing ground, with an economy based on catching fish and harvesting seafood. The continents and islands around the world have coastlines totalling around 356,000 kilometres (221,000  ...
in the municipality of
Kinn Kinn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020. It is in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional districts of Nordfjord and Sunnfjord. The municipality is the on ...
in
Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, whe ...
county,
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. It is located on the western end of the island of Reksta, less than east of the island of
Kinn Kinn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020. It is in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional districts of Nordfjord and Sunnfjord. The municipality is the on ...
and about south of the island of Skorpa. The town of
Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn, Vestland, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjorden. Florø is N ...
is located about to the east and the island of Askrova is to the southeast. The small village has about 80 residents (as of 2012). The village has two ports with a distinctive channel between them where boathouses are close together. Rognaldsvåg is rich in ambience and cultural heritage with cemeteries and ruins from the
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