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![Gildrehola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awfawf.jpg?itok=2AAfbxlk)
![Elias Fiigenschoug’s painting of Halsnøy monastery , 1656](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_192-1.jpg?itok=9VO9I-NR)
Halsnøy Monastery
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the island. Gently sloping fields lead down to the sea on both sides, in the south towards the Kloster Fjord, to the north towards the sheltered Klostervågen.
![Skorpo (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_49.jpg?itok=i4VQIqsW)
Skorpo
Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater
![Ground up bedrock in the Valen Fault, seen under a microscope.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_31.jpg?itok=Hhx1ihCW)
![Watercolour of the closely knit housing settlement at Engesund in the 1800s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_219y.jpg?itok=xDKum5nK)
Engesund
For more than 350 years Engesund has been a place for hostelries and trading in the Fitjar islands. The place is centrally placed in the shipping lane, with a sheltered harbour close to the exposed Selbjørnsfjorden. Engesund was once part of the great network of historical stopover places on the coast.
![Færøysund, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-1_faeroysund219a.jpg?itok=MW1hmh4A)
Færøysund
The old trading post lies at the sound between Stord and Færøy in Langenuen. There was a country store and steamship forwarding agent up to 1964. The trade was then moved over to the new ferry harbour of Sandvikvåg.
![Section from a sea map from the Danish Sea Map Archive from 1798, drawn by Poul Løvernørn.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_18.jpg?itok=PD2tmRI1)
Fitjarøyane
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie systematically in rows. The islands are divided by long sounds, for example Trollosen, Nuleia and Hjelmosen, which are oriented in a south-southeast to north-northwesterly direction.
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)