Where to stay in Husøya
Husøya keeps its few beds on the island itself, the centre of Træna Municipality out in the Trænfjorden. What rooms the island offers sit close to the harbour and the ferry quay, within easy reach of the municipal services and the water that surrounds the settlement on every side. Expect simple island accommodation.
Travellers base here to take in the open sea and the neighbouring island of Sanna rising just to the west, to look out to the Træna Lighthouse on the southern water, and to make day crossings to the offshore community of Selvær or south to the larger island of Lovund. The sea is the whole point. Rooms are scarce on an island this small, so a visitor does well to arrange a bed in good time, especially through the long light of the northern summer when the boats run busiest out to Husøya across the fjord.
About Husøya
What is Husøya known for?
Husøya is the administrative centre of Træna Municipality. It is the small island where the affairs of this island kommune in Nordland are gathered, lying in the Trænfjorden just east of the island of Sanna, out among the open water of the south-western coast. The Træna Lighthouse stands to the south.
Husøya holds the seat of one of the smaller island communities of northern Norway, reached only across the sea from the mainland.
What are the main landmarks in Husøya?
Out here the sea sets the marks. The Træna Lighthouse stands on the southern water off the island, the guiding mark for boats crossing the open coast toward Husøya and the wider Træna Municipality. Sanna is a landmark in itself.
This neighbouring island rises steeply just west of Husøya across a narrow strip of the Trænfjorden, the most striking feature of the scatter of islands, while the open sounds reach away toward Selvær to the north and Lovund to the south.
What is the history of Husøya?
The sea wrote everything here. Husøya grew as a fishing island in the Trænfjorden, one of the small settlements scattered across the open water off the south-western coast of Nordland, where families lived by the boat, the catch, and the crossings that linked one island to the next. The water held them and fed them.
The island of Sanna rose just to the west, sheltering the harbour a little, and the Træna Lighthouse was raised on the southern water to guide the boats safely in across the exposed coast. In time Husøya became the gathering point of the island community, taking the seat of Træna Municipality and drawing what services the kommune held to its small harbour. The crossings tied the islands together.
Ferries ran out to the offshore community of Selvær and across to Stokkvågen on the mainland, the only links to a place reachable by boat alone. The island stayed small and remote, a working community of the open sea on the far edge of northern Norway.
Where is Husøya?
Husøya lies in northern Norway (Nord-Norge), in the south-western part of Nordland, a small island set in the Trænfjorden off the open coast. The island sits just east of the island of Sanna, which rises steeply across a narrow strip of water, while the Træna Lighthouse stands out on the sea to the south and the open sounds reach away toward the offshore islands. Water surrounds it on every side.
Selvær lies to the north and the larger island of Lovund to the south, both reached only across the fjord from the small harbour of Husøya.
What is the climate of Husøya?
The ocean rules the weather on Husøya. Out in the Trænfjorden off the coast of Nordland, the open sea keeps the air milder and the swings gentler than the far-northern setting alone would suggest, with wind and salt spray a constant of life on an exposed island. Winters stay raw and grey rather than hard.
Summer brings the long, pale northern nights down over the water, the surrounding sea holding the temperature even while the wind crosses the low island from every quarter.
How do you get to Husøya?
There is no road to the island. Husøya is reachable by boat alone, so travel here depends on the regular ferry that runs across the open water of the Trænfjorden between the island and Stokkvågen on the mainland, with a further link out to the offshore community of Selvær. The crossing is the way in.
Visitors arriving from further afield in northern Norway make for the mainland quay at Stokkvågen and take the boat out to Husøya, the island of Sanna rising into view as the harbour of Træna Municipality draws near.