Repvåg ( sme, Reiffváhki) is a small
fishing village
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in
Nordkapp Municipality
), North Cape, Norway, other uses, North Cape (disambiguation)
Nordkapp ( en, North Cape; sme, Davvinjárga or ; fkv, Kappa or ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town o ...
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
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. The village is located along the western shore of the
Porsangerfjorden
The Porsangerfjorden ( en, Porsanger Fjord; sme, Porsáŋgguvuotna; fkv, Porsanginvuono) is a fjord in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway.
Name
The fjord is officially named ''Porsangerfjorden'' in Norwegian language, Norwegian. It is also known ...
on the mainland
Porsanger Peninsula.
![Repvåg road](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Repv%C3%A5g_road.jpg)
The fishing village now has about 14 residents, but historically, it was one of the main ports and trading places in Finnmark county, especially during the
Pomor trade
Pomor trade (from rus, Поморье, r=pomorje, p=pɐˈmorʲjɪ; ''po'' «by» and ''more'' «ocean»; «area by the ocean», the same word is the basis for Pomerania), is the trade carried out between the Pomors of Northwest Russia and the ...
with
Russia
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which existed until the
1917 revolution in Russia.
Repvåg Chapel is located in the village, serving the people in the southern part of Nordkapp municipality.
Slightly outside of Repvåg, there is a small area called Stranda, meaning "Beach" in English (formerly "Finneby" or "Sáamisiida" in Northern Sámi) that had a large coastal
Sami
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population and is the last area in the municipality that is still characterized by some coastal Sami culture.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Nordkapp
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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