Sørvær is a

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Hasvik Municipality Hasvik (; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Breivikbotn. Other villages in the municipality include Breivik, Finn ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

county,

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. The village is located on the western tip of the island of

Sørøya or is Norway's fourth largest island in terms of area and the largest in Finnmark county. The island is divided between Hasvik Municipality and Hammerfest Municipality. It is often claimed to be "one of the most beautiful" of the islands in ...

, looking out across the

Lopphavet Lopphavet is a stretch of open sea along the border of Troms and Finnmark counties in Norway. It has a width of about , and it stretches between the large island of Sørøya in Finnmark and the islands of Arnøya and Nord-Fugløya in Troms. The ...

Sea. Sørvær Chapel is located in this village. The village sits at the northern end of Norwegian County Road 822, about west of the municipal centre of Breivikbotn. The small village of Breivik lies about halfway along the road to Breivikbotn. The village had a population (2005) of 201 and a

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of . Since 2005, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by

Statistics Norway Statistics Norway (, abbreviated to ''SSB'') is the Norwegian statistics bureau. It was established in 1876. Relying on a staff of about 1,000, Statistics Norway publish about 1,000 new statistical releases every year on its web site. All rele ...

. In 2015, the population was about 200 people. In 1994 the

Soviet cruiser Murmansk (1955) ''Murmansk'' () was a light cruiser project no. 68-bis (designated the by NATO) of the Soviet Navy, Soviet and later the Russian Navy's Soviet Northern Fleet, Northern Fleet. Development and design The ''Sverdlov''-class cruisers, Soviet des ...

, en route to India for

ship breaking Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of Interchangeable parts, parts, which can be sol ...

, ran aground near the coast of Sørvær when its tow line broke. The removal of the ship was completed in 2013.

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Villages in Finnmark Populated places of Arctic Norway Hasvik {{Finnmark-geo-stub