Brandsøy
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Brandsøy is a village in the municipality of Flora
Flora, Norway
Flora is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Florø, which was founded in 1860, has 8,448 inhabitants . The Eikefjord area, which is the second largest place in Flora, has about...

 in Sogn og Fjordane
Sogn og Fjordane
is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the town of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality while the largest town is Førde....

 county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located on both sides of small strait that separates the east end of the island of Bransøya and the mainland. The village is located about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of the town of Florø
Florø
is a town and the administrative centre of Flora municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is also a former municipality that existed for just over 100 years. The town was founded on the Florelandet island between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjorden by royal decree in 1860. In...

 and about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the village of Grov, Sogn og Fjordane
Grov, Sogn og Fjordane
Grov is a small village in the municipality of Flora in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. Grov lies at the road junction of Norwegian national roads Rv614 and Rv5, just a couple kilometres south of the Norddalsfjord Bridge. Grov is about east of Brandsøy and east of Florø along Rv.5, and about ...

. The 0.51 square kilometres (126 acre) village has a population (2009) of 503.
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