[4] Other village areas in the municipality included Rognaldsvåg, Stavang, Grov, Norddalsfjord, Nyttingnes, Steinhovden, and Brandsøy.

[5][6] The municipality stretched from inner fjords where the mountains ascend to the Ålfotbreen glacier, to the outermost islands off the mainland coast.

The municipality is named after the old Flora farm (Old Norse: Flóra) on the island of Brandsøya, near where the town of Florø was built in 1860.

The official blazon is "Gules, three herrings bendwise argent" (Norwegian: På raud botn tre sølv sildar i skrå-stilling).

This means the arms have a red field (background) and the charge is a set of three diagonal herring.

The charge has a tincture of argent which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used.

[13][14] On 3 January 1861, the village area of Florø (population: 846) was incorporated as a ladested (port town) by royal decree, which removed it from the rural municipality of Kinn.

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Flora was made up of 31 representatives that were elected to four year terms.

At the height, there lived approximately 15,000 people on Kinn and the surrounding islands in the herring season.

Every year during the third weekend in June, the Kinna Pageant is an historical play about love, hate, fidelity and loyalty to the church and humankind.

About 150 actors take part, and audiences of several thousand tourists visit the island to watch the play.

The island was the district's most important trade centre last century, and exports and shipping were major activities.

A stone cross memorial commemorating King Olav the Holy and a sacrificial site from the Viking Age can be found here.

The highest point of the island, 233 metres (764 ft) above sea level, provides a view of the archipelago.

[31] In Ausevika, which is 41 kilometres (25 mi) south of Florø, lies one of the largest rock carving sites in Norway.

Old boat houses and domestic dwellings were moved from various places in the district and re-erected in Florø near the museum.

A large exhibition on North Sea oil, Snorreankeret, based on the Snorre platform is located in the museum.