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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)
![A zone with nuggets from the inner earth.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_26.jpg?itok=6s7Qo0xH)
![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.
![Early purple orchid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_4.jpg?itok=gAUXhV5O)
![Innarsøyane toward Holmengrå.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fedje_6.jpg?itok=lJyShb6O)
![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.
![Nedre Helland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mo_1.jpg?itok=J9xuc7pb)
Nedre Helland- skred
Many still remember when the avalanche struck Nedre Helland, on the 14th of August, 1953 14:30 o'clock. All of the buildings at one of the farms and the main house on the neighbouring farm were destroyed. The one woman who was inside a building escaped, frightened but unharmed. The same with the others who lived at Nedre Helland; everyone was a safe distance from the avalanche.
![Mo with the Otterstad farm in the background early in the 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_329-1_0.jpg?itok=JUVMdLHq)
Otterstad
Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the farm were probably constructed a little after the middle of the 1800s. Both here and on the Mo side, the boatsheds were important storage places at the seashore; wood and other farm products intended for the town; corn and merchandise in return.