Å

Å i Lofoten (from å meaning "stream") is a village in the municipality of Moskenes, Norway and is located towards the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago. It is connected to the rest of the archipelago by the E10 road, which is also called King Olav's Road. Until the 1990s, Å was mainly a small fishing village specializing in stockfish, but since then tourism has taken over as the main economic activity. The village (originally a farm) is first mentioned in 1567 ("Aa"). The name is from Old Norse á which means "(small) river". The name was spelled Aa until 1917 when the Norwegian language reform changed the letter aa to å.