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![Sunde, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_194_xxx.jpg?itok=7zdyKxkc)
Sunde
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an industrial adventure that made Sunde into one of the first industrial communities in Kvinnherad.
![Geithidleren, Årsand, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_200-1.jpg?itok=oTokwPdx)
Årsand
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shallow flagstone – Geithilderen. Parts of the rock wall are covered by a light lime crust and on the crust figures have been painted in golden and rusty red colours.
![D/S «Seimstrand» at bay in Salhus around 1906](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_264-1.jpg?itok=9ymiBDPa)
Salhus
Salhus has been a connecting point for sea travellers far back in time. The name probably derives from the Old Norse word sáluhús, “house for travellers”. The name may indicate that this was a place for an inn even in the Middle Ages. The place is eminently situated in the route to and from Bergen. For travellers coming by boat from Sogn and Nordhordland, Salhus is the last stop before Bergen. Travellers from the communities in Voss also came this way earlier when they were going to Bergen
![Rope making](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-260-verftet.jpg?itok=ViAYY7jN)
Sandviken
Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced rope and fishing tackle for West and North Norway.
![Xylograph of the shipyard, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_260-1_0.jpg?itok=JGCkIcM5)
Verftet
Today the name “Verftet” is linked to both a district and conglomeration of buildings lying protected by Fredriksberg castle. The original shipyard was founded in the 1780s by Georg Brunchorst and Georg Vedeler. It was called Gerogenes Verft (the shipyards of the Georgs), and here ships were both built and repaired in the years after 1786.
![The trading store at Bakholmen, Austevoll](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_230-1_-bakholmen-3.jpg?itok=CT07ZVTn)
Bakholmen
On Austre Bakholmen, a small islet of around 15 acres between Hundvåko and Drøni, lies the oldest trading centres in Austevoll. For a long time this was a court location and it was a natural centre in this archipelago.
![Krosshamn, Austevoll](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_232-1_-krosshavn.jpg?itok=aMCu-zpQ)
Krosshamn
Krosshamn lies in the shipping lane northeast of Hundvåkøy, near Sandtorv. The name probably derives from the fact that this is Austevoll’s harbour situated nearest to Korsfjorden.
![Boathouses in Kvalvåg, Austevoll](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_229-3_-kvalvaag-2.jpg?itok=1Ko6nLFV)
Kvalvåg
Kvalvåg on Stolmen is first mentioned as a trading post in 1655, and in 1731 the owner Jens Meyer, was granted a royal trading privilege.
![The trading post of Engevikhavn, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-243-3.jpg?itok=WaEdeaKO)
Engevikhavn
The guesthouse activity in Engevik in the 1700s could not have been very extensive. But a hundred years later a trading and guesthouse centre developed on a piece of land called Engevikhavn. This is the place where Segelcke had obtained licence to operate an inn and guesthouse business in 1729.
![The trading store at Holsund is now in the Horda Museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_247-xx.jpg?itok=osh8ymrJ)