Jakobselva ( sme, Ánnejohka; fkv, Annijoki; en, Jacob's River) is a river in
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 ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The river, which is sometimes known as the ''Vestre Jakobselv'' (''Western Jacob's River''), runs through the municipalities of
Nesseby and
Vadsø on the
Varanger Peninsula. The river begins around the mountain ''Midthaugen'' in Nesseby, near the border with
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.
...
. It then winds its way down through a lush birch wood valley along the municipal border between Nesseby and Vadsø to the village of
Vestre Jakobselv
Vestre Jakobselv ( sme, Ánnejohka; fkv, Annijoki) is a village in Vadsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, in extreme northeastern Norway. The village lies along the European route E75 highway about west of the town of Vadsø and the s ...
where it completes its journey and empties into the
Varangerfjorden.
The river is known as a superb
sport fishing
Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition. It can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is professional fishing for profit; or subsistence fishing, which is fishing ...
river, with a lot of big
salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...
.
References
Rivers of Troms og Finnmark
Vadsø
Nesseby
Rivers of Norway
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