# Vikeid

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**Vikeid** or **Vikeidet** (lit. 'Vik Isthmus') is a flat [isthmus](/source/Isthmus) on the island of [Langøya](/source/Lang%C3%B8ya) in [Sortland Municipality](/source/Sortland_Municipality) in [Nordland](/source/Nordland) county, [Norway](/source/Norway). The village of [Vik](/source/Vik_(Sortland)) lies on the east side of the isthmus and the village of [Frøskeland](/source/Fr%C3%B8skeland) lies on the west side. The isthmus has the [Eidsfjorden](/source/Eidsfjorden_(Nordland)) to the west and the [Sortlandsundet](/source/Sortlandsundet) strait in the east. The isthmus almost divides Langøya in two. To the north lies the northwestern part of Sortland Municipality, and further north is [Øksnes Municipality](/source/%C3%98ksnes_Municipality). The southwest part of Sortland Municipality lies south of the isthmus. The Eidsfjorden and the western part of the isthmus belonged to [Hadsel Municipality](/source/Hadsel_Municipality) until 1963, when it was transferred to Sortland Municipality.[1]

The isthmus is marshy. Parts of the isthmus are cultivated as grassland, and some areas have been trenched and planted with [Norway spruce](/source/Picea_abies). In the eastern part of the isthmus is the former [Vikeid Agricultural Machine Operators' School](/source/Vikeid_Agricultural_Machine_Operators'_School). The school was closed in the summer of 2005.[2][3] There are several lakes in the eastern part of the isthmus, toward Frøskeland.

[County Road 820](/source/Norwegian_County_Road_820) from Sortland to [Bø Municipality](/source/B%C3%B8_Municipality_(Nordland)) crosses Vikeid from east to west.[4] Most of the route crosses the isthmus in a straight line, and the road is therefore known as one of the routes in [Vesterålen](/source/Vester%C3%A5len) with a lot of speeding.

In 2004, the Vesterålen radio-controlled vehicle club held the northern Norwegian model aircraft championship at the premises of the Vikeid Agricultural Machine Operators' School.

Since the end of the 1990s, the [pink-footed goose](/source/Pink-footed_goose) has grazed in parts of Vikeid during the spring migration period. Previously the geese grazed more on grassy fields and marshes along the [Sortland Sound](/source/Sortlandssundet),[5] but the geese have been increasingly been driven from these pastures and have begun to find new pastures at a greater distance from the sound.

## References

1. Jukvam, Dag (1999). ["Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen"](http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf) (in Norwegian). [Statistisk sentralbyrå](/source/Statistics_Norway)

1. [Nordland fylkeskommune: Månedens bilde - februar 2011.](http://www.arkivinordland.no/arkivmateriale/historie-artikler/manedens-bilde-februar-2011.82095.aspx)

1. [Berg-Hansen, Morten. 2014. Sveinung og traktorene. *Bladet Vesterålen* (May 18).](https://www.blv.no/sortland/sveinung-og-traktorene/s/1-1175899-7360875)

1. ["*Vegliste 2016: Fylkes- og kommunale veger. Nordland*. 2016. Bodø: Statens vegvesen Region nord, pp. 2ff."](https://web.archive.org/web/20170308192247/http://www.vegvesen.no/_attachment/1571367/binary/1139174?fast_title=Nordland+-+vegliste+fylkes-+og+kommunale+veger+oktober+2016.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://www.vegvesen.no/_attachment/1571367/binary/1139174?fast_title=Nordland+-+vegliste+fylkes-+og+kommunale+veger+oktober+2016.pdf) on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-02-26.

1. Tombre, Ingunn M. et al. 2005. *Kortnebbgjess og hvitkinngjess i Vesterålen*. Tromsø: Norsk institutt for naturforskning, pp. 17ff.

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