Anyone visiting Fiskeværet Skipnes should visit Flagghaugen to experience the sculpture of Anna and sense its symbolic place for the role of coastal women in our common cultural heritage.

The sculpture of «Anna at Vinje» on the flagpole at Skipnes has become an icon for all coastal women and for our shared coastal cultural heritage. Scouting and listening, she stands there and looks out over the shore and the great sea where our ancestors found food and prosperity, but it was also often their watery grave.

Anna's grandson «Han Josef i Skipnes» was, at the age of two, placed in the care of foster parents living at Skipnes when his father died at sea. In this way, he is part of the life, fate and drama of the people out here in the sea gap. As a fisherman, foreman and entrepreneur, he built up the fishing village of Skipnes from 1900-1967 as it stands today.