Silda ( sme, Sildi) is an uninhabited island in
Loppa Municipality 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
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, 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 ...
. The island lies in the
Lopphavet Sea, north of the villages of
Bergsfjord
Bergsfjord is a village in Loppa Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland part of Loppa Municipality, along the Bergsfjorden, across from the island of Silda. The village of Sør-Tverrfjord lies ...
and
Sør-Tverrfjord
Sør-Tverrfjord is a village in Loppa Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland of Loppa, along the Langfjorden, south of the island of Silda. The village is connected by road to the village of ...
on the mainland. The island is very mountainous, the tallest being the tall mountain Sunnáčohkka. The name of the island may be derived from the Norwegian words for "seal" or "herring".
Archaeological findings on the islands include farm mounds, traces of houses, burial cairns from the Iron Age and Middle Ages.
See also
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List of islands of Norway
References
Loppa
Uninhabited islands of Norway
Islands of Troms og Finnmark
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