Solvær

Solvær[1] is a group of islands in Lurøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

[2] The group consists of about 300 small and flat islands, some of which host permanent residents.

Some of the main, inhabited islands include Sleneset, Moflaget, Slotterøya, Straumøya, Nordsolvær, and Sørsolvær.

The main village area is Sleneset, which is also the port at which the local ferries stop on the way from Stokkvågen (on the mainland) to the islands of Lovund and on to Træna Municipality to the west.

[2] The archipelago has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of breeding Eurasian eagle-owls as well as of non-breeding red-breasted mergansers.

Aerial view of Solvaer Island