Vik is a village in

Sortland Municipality or is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vesterålen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sortland. Other population centres in Sortland include Bø, Holand, Holmstad, ...

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, N ...

county, Norway. The village is located on the island of Langøya, about north of the town of Sortland. The Vik farm previously comprised an area completely from the isthmus Vikeid in the west to Gåsfjord in the northeast, spanning between its furthers points. Today, however, Vik is considered limited to the middle of this larger area. Vik lies on the north side of the inlet Vikosen, the outlet of the river Vikelva. The valley Vikdalen and the lake Vikvatnet lie north of Vik. The island Vikøya lies in the

Sortlandsundet Sortlandsundet or Sortlandssundet ( en, Sortland Sound''Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse'' no. 212. 1983. Trondheim: Norges Geologiske Undersokelse, p. 6.) is a strait or sound in Sortland Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It separates th ...

strait east of Vik and across the bay entrance Vikbotn. Vik is connected to the town of Sortland by County Road 956, which branches off of County Road 820 at the Vik Bridge where the river Vikelva empties into the inlet Vikosen. Vik has a long history and is one of the oldest inhabited places in Sortland. It was mentioned in a letter dating from 1400, and its name was recorded as ''Viick'', ''Wiigh'', and ''Wiig'' in the past. It the 1840s, a considerable number of people moved to Vik from Voss. Although Sortland does not have a strongly developed fishing industry, fishermen live across large parts of the municipality, especially in Vik. The shallow water of the Vik Inlet is protected as the

Vik Inlet Nature Reserve The Vikosen Nature Reserve ( no, Vikosen naturreservat) is located in the municipality of Sortland in Nordland county, Norway. The nature reserve includes a shallow water area in the inlet Vikosen and a wide zone of shoreline above it. The res ...

, particularly because of its importance as an area for the pink-footed goose during spring.''Vikosen naturreservat''. Map and description of the nature reserve.
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