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![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.
![Bekkjarvik, Austevoll early in the 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_229-4.jpg?itok=avVz2YJj)
![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.
![Herlandsnesjane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ost_19.jpg?itok=ziqPLTch)
Herlandsnesjane
Herlandsnesjane, a four-kilometre long peninsula in Lake Storavatnet in the middle of Osterøy, is well known among botanists. Here lies an unusually large and diverse bog.
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![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.
![Strandflat and scree by land](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_14.jpg?itok=4i8IcPpe)
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)