Holmengrå is the name a small
fishing village
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in
Sør-Varanger Municipality
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in
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,
Norway
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. The village lies on a small area of flat land along the
Holmengråfjorden (an arm off the
Varangerfjorden
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Extents
The fjord flows through the municipalities of Vardø, ...
). The tall mountain
Holmengråfjellet lies just west of the village. The area is rocky with poor boat access. There is some grass and
heather around the village, but the ground is mostly rocks.
History
The village was established in 1880 by
Kven
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By day ...
immigrants from
Finland
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. It was populated until 1970. It was protected by the Cultural Heritage Act in 1998. Now there are 8 housing units and it is only seasonally used for fishing cabins. The village is owned by the state and managed by the
Finnmark Estate
The Finnmark Act () of 2005 transferred about 96% (about 46,000 km2) of the area in the Finnmark county in Norway to the inhabitants of Finnmark. This area is managed by the Finnmark Estate agency.
The Finnmark Estate is managed by a board of dir ...
.
At Holmengrå, there is a maze that dates back to approximately 1000–1600 AD, probably of Eastern
Sami
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origin.
References
External links
The Holmengrå labyrinth
Sør-Varanger
Villages in Finnmark
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