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Skutvika or Skutvik is a small village in the municipality of Hamarøy in Nordland county, Norway. The village is situated at the southwestern extreme of the Hamarøya peninsula, about north of Bodø, southwest of Narvik, and south of Svolvær. To the west and south of Skutvik is the Økssundet, a sound connecting the Sagfjorden and Vestfjorden. The landscape in the immediate vicinity of the village is dominated by hills, while further north a row of mountains rises up to above sea level. There were 212 inhabitants in Skutvik in 2011.〔(Statistics Norway: StatBank ) 02.01.10 (Population by age, sex, marital status and foreign citizenship) 04317 Statistical unit 18490112〕 Skutvik has a grocery shop, cafeteria with accommodation, electronics business, school and kindergarten among other things. The main employer is Mainstream Norway with its salmon-processing plant. The name ''Skutvik(a)'' literally means ''"(the) ship cove"''. ==Transportation== * Norwegian County Road 81 starts in Skutvik and ends at the European route E06 highway in Ulvsvåg (total length of ). * There are bus connections with Ulvsvåg, Oppeid and Skutvik are offered through Stoklands Bilruter, a division of Saltens Bilruter. * There are daily departures of a car-ferry from Skutvik that connect to Svolvær and Skrova in Lofoten connecting County Road 81 to the European route E10 highway. There is increased ferry capacity and numbers of departures during the summer season (June–August). * There is a high-speed passenger express boat between Svolvær and Bodø that stops at Skutvik. The two-hour ferry ride from Skutvik goes through a varied landscape, first between the mountains of Steigen and the Hamarøya peninsula, and then the crossing of the open ocean of the Vestfjorden, that on a clear day provides the view over the entire Lofoten mountain range. To call at the tiny island of Skrova, the ferry goes between islets and rocks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skutvika」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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