or is a village in

Tromsø Municipality Tromsø Municipality is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø. Other notable settlements in the municipality include the vi ...

Troms Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...

county,

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. The village is located along the

Ullsfjorden or is a fjord in Troms county, Norway. The fjord runs through the municipalities of Tromsø, Karlsøy, and Lyngen. The fjord flows from the village of Sjøvassbotn northwards along the west side of the Lyngen Peninsula (where the famous L ...

on the

Lyngen peninsula Lyngen may refer to: Places *Lyngen Municipality, a municipality in Troms county, Norway *Lyngen (fjord), a fjord in Troms county, Norway *Lyngen Alps, a mountain range in Troms county, Norway *Lyngen Church Lyngen Church () is a parish church of ...

, about east of the city of Tromsø, but it is about to drive there. The proposed Ullsfjord Bridge would cross the Ullsfjorden near Jøvika, reducing the travel time to central Tromsø by half. The village has road access via the Fv293 road to the village of

Lakselvbukt or is a village in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located on the inner part of the Ullsfjorden. The village lies about northeast of the village of Laksvatn (in neighboring Balsfjord Municipality) and the European ...

to the south and further to the

European route E8 The European route E8 is a European route that runs between Tromsø, Norway and Turku, Finland. The length of the route is . * E8: Tromsø – Nordkjosbotn – Skibotn – Kilpisjärvi – Kaaresuvanto – Muonio – Tornio – Keminmaa ...

highway. Before the road was built in the 1970s a ferry went from Jøvik to Breivikeidet. Jøvika (or ''Jøvik'' as it used to be called) was one of the largest villages in the former

Ullsfjord Municipality Ullsfjord (historically: ''Sørfjord'') is a Former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1902 until its dissolution in 1964. It was located in what is now the ...

. Jøvik Chapel was built in 1920. The ''Jøvik Sildolje & Kraftforfabrik'' øvik herring oil & concentrates factorywas based here, which in the 1970s was the country's second largest

herring Herring are various species of forage fish, belonging to the Order (biology), order Clupeiformes. Herring often move in large Shoaling and schooling, schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate wate ...

factory, but was closed in 1996. The subsequent decades have been characterised by a declining and ageing population. In 2018, there were about 36 residents in Jøvika.

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Villages in Troms Tromsø {{Troms-geo-stub