Laksefjorden ( en, Lakse Fjord; sme, Lágesvuotna) is a
fjord located entirely in
Lebesby Municipality
Lebesby ( sme, Davvesiida and fkv, Lebespyy) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kjøllefjord. Other villages in the municipality include Ifjord, Kunes, Lebesby ...
in
Troms og Finnmark county,
Norway. At long, it is the third-longest fjord in Finnmark county after the
Porsangerfjorden and
Varangerfjorden. The fjord is situated in a sparsely populated area, with only few and small settlements along the fjord, including
Lebesby,
Kunes
Xinyuan County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Künas County (; ), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. It contains a ...
,
Ifjord, and
Veidnes. The fjord is surrounded by the
Sværholt Peninsula to the west and the
Nordkinn Peninsula
Cape Nordkinn ( no, Kinnarodden or ) at is the northernmost point on the Nordkinn Peninsula in county, Norway. It is notable for being the northernmost point of mainland Norway, and by extension the northernmost point of mainland Europe. The c ...
to the east, and it empties to the north into the
Barents Sea.
Norwegian County Road 888
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follows the southern and eastern shoreline of the fjord.
See also
*
List of Norwegian fjords
This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway. In total, there are about 1,190 fjords in Norway and the Svalbard islands. The sortable list includes the lengths and locations of those fjords.
Fjords
See also
* List of gla ...
References
Fjords of Troms og Finnmark
Lebesby
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