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![Kjelstraumen today](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_305_kjelstraumen_150.jpg?itok=5jwimkOE)
Kjelstraumen
If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic increased as well as the trading with Nordland in fish and herring, feather and down. One of the central routes passes through Kjelstraumen, in the sound between Ulvøy and Bakkøy. This has been a place for a guesthouse since 1610, with Royal Letter of Privilege, part of the large network of trading post and guesthouse locations along the coast.
![The mill that belonged to Johan Steinegger in Kvalvågen in Lindås, an attempt to exploit the difference in tides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/austr_5.jpg?itok=-8B2oviO)
![The marine use environment on Krossøy, Austrheim](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_306-1.jpg?itok=G4q9_8h8)
Krossøy
Furthest north in the island community Rongevær, at the entrance to Fensfjorden, lies Krossøy. Belonging to the farm are the islands of Krossøy, Husøy, Kårøy, Lyngkjerringa, Søre Kjerringa, Rotøy and Kuhovet. All of them have been inhabited. On Krossøy itself today there are four holdings. The marine use environment here is one of the best preserved along the West Norwegian coast.
![Kræmmerholmen photographed in early 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_308-1obs.jpg?itok=M3y6dpBn)
Kræmmerholmen
Kræmmerholmen is one of the old privileged trading posts. From the 1600s all trading in West Norway took place in Bergen, and the farmers were obliged to travel into town in order to sell their produce and buy what they needed. In Bergen City Privilege of 1702 the merchants in the city were allowed to establish “Trading posts in the countryside”. The owner had to have residency in Bergen and the trading post was to be run by an assistant. In this way the city retained financial control of those living in the districts, and not least with buying and selling of fish.
![The D/S Oster and D/S Børøysund](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bat.jpg?itok=3bZZkSJ5)
![The hostelry place at Bruknappen, Lindås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_314-1.jpg?itok=LBiJRHGs)
Bruknappen
The hostelry place in Bruknappen is situated north in Radsundet, just south of Festo, by a sheltered idyllic bay, close to the main lane. Sloops both from Sognefjorden and Nordland had their fixed stops at “the blacksmith in Bruknappen”; on their way to Bergen, fully loaded with wood and hazel hoops, barrels and chests, or on their way home with town merchandise.
![“The Trondheim post road” from Gaulen, Lindås.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_312_postveg_gaulen_lindas_150.jpg?itok=PMPplx4t)
![Eclogite bedrock at Ådnefjellet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/meland_21.jpg?itok=W8PmuPzd)
Eldsfjellet
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledonian mountain chain. The process may well have triggered some of the deepest earthquakes the world has ever known. The clearest traces of this drama are found in and around Mt. Eldsfjellet, in peaceful Meland.
![Drawing of runic letters engraved in a carving knife from Fløksand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/linalaukrf.gif?itok=9G3iwJhY)
![“Prospectus of Frekhaug”. J.F.L.Dreier, 1812](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_295-3.jpg?itok=aGf5ib0l)
Frekhaug
Frekhaug has been a large farm with well-off owners through many generations. The main house, a two storey building with a hipped roof, must have been erected about 1780.