Useful information
The Touristinformation gives you good advice in what you can experience in Andøy.
We can book rooms, order tickets for activities, guides or other tickets you might need.
Openinghours at Andøy Touristoffice: Open all year round,
monday-friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. From June 15 to
August 20 openinghours between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m..
You will find us on the harbour by the lighthouse,
Hamnegata 1c.
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Contactinformation:
Telephone +47 76 14 12 03
E-mail: post@andoyturist.no
Adress: Hamnegata 1c, Fyrvika, 8483 Andenes
About Andøy Municipality:
Andøy lies at a latitude of almost 70º, and is further north than either Kautokeino in Finnmark or Murmansk on the Kola peninsula. However, thanks to the Gulf Stream the climate is relatively mild. Oslo has 24 more days of winter per year than Andenes. Andenes has the midnight sun from 19 May until 25 July. Andøya has been described as a “geology textbook”, with the youngest and oldest type of rock. Bleik was probably the only ice-free place in
Norway in the last Ice Age, and the Bleik moraine is the oldest in the country. The Ramså field on the eastern side of Andøya is the only place on the Norwegian mainland with oily rocks from the Jurassic limestone period. Three of the marshy areas of Andøya are nature reserves. The largest of these is Skogvoll. Andøy is also one of Norway`s best known cloudberry areas. Andøy`s highest mountain is Skrivartind on the island of Hinnøya, 890 metres above sea level. Ramnan peaks and Måtind are in the northern part of Andøya are popular destinations for hikers. Andøy has 231 kilometres of shoreline. “Bleikstranda” is a 2,5 kilometres long
sandy beach. There is definitive evidence of settlement from 1400 BC. At Bakkan near Bø there are remains of two Iron Age farms and one mediaeval farm.
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