Hindersön is an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Luleå archipelago.

[2] In winter the island can be accessed via an ice road, the longest in Sweden at 15 kilometres (9.3 mi).

[3] Hindersön is made up of three smaller islands that have grown together through as the land rose through post-glacial rebound.

A record from 1559 gave 30 people, four horses, 21 cows, six heifers, 25 sheep, eleven goats and two pigs were divided between the four homesteads.

[1] The iron ore mine was opened in the 1870s by a professor Anders Fornander, who built a stone memorial to himself.

The granite powder magazine has been restored and may be seen at Oxgrundet when travelling by boat through "Västisundet".

After World War II ended in 1945 the population steadily declined, with first the shops and then the school being closed.