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Gamvik
( sme, Gáŋgaviika) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mehamn. The other main villages in Gamvik include Gamvik and Skjånes. Gamvik is known as one of the poorest and most undeveloped municipalities in Norway. The number of inhabitants rose at one moment in 2012, but in 2014, after the fish factory closed, the population declined dramatically with the departure of the eastern European fishermen. Most people live in the village of Mehamn (about 500 inhabitants), which has an airport, Mehamn Airport, and is also a port of call of the hurtigruten coastal boats. The Slettnes Lighthouse near the village of Gamvik is the northernmost lighthouse on the mainland of Europe. Nervei and Langfjordbotn are two very small villages in southern Gamvik that are only accessible by boat. Finnkongkeila is an abandoned village along the Tanafjorden. The municipality is the 65th largest by area out of the 356 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamvik (village)
Gamvik is a fishing village in Gamvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the Nordkinn Peninsula, along the Barents Sea. The village is the second largest settlement in Gamvik municipality, after the municipal centre of Mehamn which is located about to the west. Gamvik is home to the Gamvik Museum and Gamvik Church. The village is an old church site with churches located here since at least the 1850s. The village was historically only accessible by boat, but due to the poor harbor conditions, the daily Hurtigruten steamers had to drop anchor a little way out from the shore and then smaller boats had to ferry people into the village. In the 1970s, Gamvik Airport was built and in the 1980s, Norwegian County Road 888 was built from Lebesby to Gamvik. While Grense Jakobselv is the settlement farthest away from the capital Oslo, if international routes (through Sweden and Finland) are included, Gamvik is the place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehamn Airport
Mehamn Airport ( no, Mehamn lufthavn; ) is a regional airport serving the village of Mehamn in Gamvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It also serves the villages Kjøllefjord and Gamvik. The airport is outside of the village of Mehamn and is owned and operated by the state-owned Avinor. The tower is remotely controlled from Bodø. The asphalt runway is . Services are operated by Widerøe using Dash 8-100 aircraft which connect to other communities in Finnmark, and the city of Tromsø. The routes are subsidized by the Ministry of Transport and Communications through public service obligations. Both the villages of Gamvik and Kjøllefjord were considered as alternative locations for the airport, and both received smaller airfields before Mehamn Airport opened in 1974. Widerøe operated de Havilland Canada Twin Otters until they were replaced with the Dash 8 in 1995. The airport served 14,392 passengers in 2014 and is the northernmost airport in Europe except ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehamn
Mehamn ( sme, Donjevuotna; fkv, Meehamina) is the administrative centre of Gamvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the small Vedvik peninsula, itself part of the greater Nordkinn Peninsula, at the southern end of the Mehamnfjorden, a bay off of the Barents Sea. The village of Gamvik lies about to the east and the village of Kjøllefjord (in Lebesby Municipality) lies about to the southwest. Mehamn Chapel is located in this village. The village has a population (2017) of 779 which gives the village a population density of . History Whaling Svend Foyn established the whaling station in Mehamn that was built in 1884-1885. It was put into use starting in the spring of 1885, and it became the largest of its kind in Finnmark county. After Foyn’s death in 1894, the whaling station was run by Foyn’s whaling company. Svend Foyn also established the Svend Foyn Chapel, in Mehamn starting in 1887. Mehamn Rebellion The background for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slettnes Lighthouse
Slettnes Lighthouse ( no, Slettnes fyr) is the northernmost mainland lighthouse on Earth. It is located in Gamvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It sits along the Barents Sea approximately north of the village of Gamvik on the northern coast of the Nordkinn Peninsula, within the Slettnes Nature Reserve. The lighthouse is the only cast iron lighthouse in Finnmark county. This is the easternmost of the three Nordkapp area lighthouses, and it is often considered the North Cape Light, marking the "top" of Europe. Fruholmen Lighthouse is located about farther north, on the island of Ingøya, but the Slettnes Lighthouse is the northernmost lighthouse on the mainland of Scandinavia. History This lighthouse was built from 1903 to 1905. The round cast iron tower is tall and it is painted red with two white horizontal bands. The light on top emits one long (2.5 sec) white flash every 20 seconds. The light burns from 12 August until 24 April each year. It doesn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nervei
Nervei ( sme, Njereveadji) is a small Sami village in the Gamvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located along the shore of Langfjorden, an arm of Tanafjorden in Eastern Finnmark. The nearby village of Laggo is located to the south. The main industries in Nervei are sea harvesting and farming. The main exports are cod, dried fish, king crabs, sheep, and products from mohair Mohair (pronounced ) is a fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat. (This should not be confused with Angora wool, which is made from the fur of the Angora rabbit.) Both durable and resilient, mohair is notable for its high luster ... wool. There is no official road going to the village yet, so commuting is done by boat from Skjånes or Smalfjord. The residents have been trying to get a road connection for many years, and some work has begun on building a road from Rv. 888 at Reinoksevannet to Nervei. Currently, the dirt-gravel road is open during most of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skjånes
Skjånes ( sme, Skeavvonjárga) is a small village in Gamvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the shores of the Hopsfjorden, an arm that branches off the main Tanafjorden. The small village lies on the Nordkinn Peninsula, a long drive southeast of the village of Mehamn. The 60-70 residents work mostly in the fishing industry The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products. It is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as including .... Hop Church is located in this village, serving the southern part of the municipality. Images File:Skjaanes2.jpeg, View of Skjånes, showing the old school File:Skjaanes3.jpeg, View of the Skjånes harbor File:Skjaanes4.jpeg, View of the ferry stopping at Skjånes References External links Villages in Finnmark Gamvik Populated places of Arctic Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnkongkeila
Finnkongkeila is an abandoned fishing village in Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern part of the Nordkinn Peninsula on the shores of the Tanafjorden. The village was abandoned in 1944 after the burning of the village during the German withdrawal from Finnmark during their retreat near the end of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... The village was not rebuilt after the war because of its remote location with no road access. References Gamvik Villages in Norway (depopulated) Former populated places in Finnmark {{Finnmark-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troms Og Finnmark
Troms og Finnmark (; sme, Romsa ja Finnmárku ; fkv, Tromssa ja Finmarkku; fi, Tromssa ja Finnmark, lit. Troms and Finnmark in English language, English), is a Counties of Norway, county in Northern Norway, northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform. Its lifespan as county is only temporary, as it was decided to cease to exist from January 1st 2024. It is the largest county by area in Norway, encompassing about . It was formed by the merger of the former Finnmark and Troms counties in addition to Tjeldsund Municipality from Nordland county. The administrative centre of the county is split between two towns. The political and administrative offices are based in Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø (the seat of the old Troms county). The county governor (Norway), county governor is based in Vadsø (town), town of Vadsø (the seat of the old Finnmark county). The two towns are about apart, approximately a 10-hour drive by car. On 1 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities Of Norway
Norway is divided into 11 administrative regions, called counties (''fylker'' in Norwegian, singular: ''fylke''), and 356 municipalities (''kommuner/-ar'', singular: ''kommune'' – cf. communes). The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality. Municipalities are the atomic unit of local government in Norway and are responsible for primary education (until 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. Law enforcement and church services are provided at a national level in Norway. Municipalities are undergoing continuous consolidation. In 1930, there were 747 municipalities in Norway. As of 2020 there are 356 municipalities, a reduction from 422. See the list of former municipalities of Norway for further detail about municipal mergers. The consolidation effort is complicated by a number of factors. Since block grants are made by the national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanafjorden
The Tanafjord or Tanafjorden ( sme, Deanuvuotna) is a large fjord in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the municipalities of Tana, Gamvik, and Berlevåg. Its orientation is mainly north–south, reaching approximately from the small village of Smalfjord in Tana Municipality in the south to the mouth of the fjord at the Barents Sea. The fjord separates the Nordkinn Peninsula ( Gamvik Municipality) in the west from the Varanger Peninsula ( Berlevåg Municipality) in the east. The Tana River empties into the southern part of the fjord. There are several side fjords which branch off of the main Tanafjorden including the Hopsfjorden, Langfjorden, and Gulgofjorden. There are some settlements along the fjord, but they are all small and rather isolated. Settlements include the villages of Vestertana, Austertana, Trollfjorden, Skjånes, Nervei, and Store Molvik. Norwegian County Road 98 and Norwegian County Road 890 run along the southern parts of the fjord. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tana, Norway
or is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana bru. Among the other villages in the municipality are Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagurra. The municipality is the 5th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Deatnu-Tana is the 236th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,821. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 2.6% over the previous 10-year period. Regarding the fauna - in 2022 there had been at least one bear; one bear was eliminated (by government order) because deaths of sheep were attributed to at least one bear. Name ''Tana'' is a Norwegianized form of the Northern Sami name ''Deatnu''. The Sami name is identical with the Sami word ''deatnu'' which means "great river" or "main river", referring to the main river ( Tana River) which runs through the municipality. Prior to 1918, the name was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tana Municipality
or is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana bru. Among the other villages in the municipality are Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagurra. The municipality is the 5th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Deatnu-Tana is the 236th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,821. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 2.6% over the previous 10-year period. Regarding the fauna - in 2022 there had been at least one bear; one bear was eliminated (by government order) because deaths of sheep were attributed to at least one bear. Name ''Tana'' is a Norwegianized form of the Northern Sami name ''Deatnu''. The Sami name is identical with the Sami word ''deatnu'' which means "great river" or "main river", referring to the main river ( Tana River) which runs through the municipality. Prior to 1918, the name was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
