Rypefjord is a village in
Hammerfest Municipality
Hammerfest (; sme, Hámmerfeasta ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest is the northernmost town in the world with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hammerfe ...
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), is a county in northern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 as the result of a regional reform. ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located just south of the
town of Hammerfest on the western side of the large island of
Kvaløya. Rypefjord was the main population centre of the former municipality of
Sørøysund
Sørøysund is a former municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1852 until its dissolution in 1992. It is located in the present-day municipality of Hammerfest. The former municipality encompassed the eastern pa ...
. Today, Rypefjord is considered a suburb of the town of Hammerfest. Fjordtun
primary school
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is located in Rypefjord. The village has a population (2017) of 1,838 which gives the village a
population density
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of .
Media gallery
Rypefjord3.jpg, Rypefjord harbour at night
Hammerfest suburb 2005.jpg, The mountain Tyven - overlooking Rypefjord
See also
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List of villages in Finnmark
References
Hammerfest
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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