Sør-Rana is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 777-square-kilometre (300 sq mi) municipality existed from 1929 until 1964. Sør-Rana encompassed an area on both sides of the middle section of the Ranfjorden around where the Sørfjorden and Elsfjorden branch off the main fjord.
View of the Finneidfjord Station in Sør-Rana (c. 1950s)
Hemnes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Korgen. Other villages include Bjerka, Bleikvasslia, Hemnesberget, and Sund.
View of Hemnesberget
View from Korgfjellet mountain in Hemnes (about 400 m amsl) towards Vefsn
Memorial for Yugoslav partisans taken as POWs.
Okstindan range with Oksskolten, 1916 m, the highest mountain in North Norway.