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![Herandsholmen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=1_UHuD_P)
![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![Norwegian Sagebrush](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_3.jpg?itok=fj-tqk5a)
Jonstein
When high school student Arne Handegard collected plants for a herbarium in 1962, he didn’t know what kind of rarity he had pressed into his notebook. 30 years later he attended a botanical lecture, where a picture was shown of a plant he recognized: “Norwegian Sagebrush, which in Norway is only found in a large area of Dovre and in Trollheimen, and in a little area in Ry county”. Arne Handegard raised his hand: “That plant grows on Mt. Jonstein in Jondal”.
![The boathouses at Svåsand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=KK04JZW2)
Svåsand
Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along the Hardanger fjord. It is the farms at Svåsand that have their boathouses here, four main farms with origins far back in time.
![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.
![The Nottveit farms are situated without road access at Mofjorden.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_330-1z.jpg?itok=vG7SLFkx)
Nottveit
In one of the frame-built haysheds at Nottveit, at holding No. 3, we discover that several of the staves have a medieval look, with large dimensions and carefully rounded edges. According to tradition, it was the farms Nottveit and Mostraumen that supplied the timber for the stave church at Mo, and it is not unlikely that these farms received the old timber in return when the new church was erected there in 1593.
![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.
![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.