Kamøyvær is a

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Nordkapp Municipality Nordkapp (; or ; or ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Honningsvåg, where most residents live. Other settlements in Nordkapp include the villages of Gjesvær, Kåfjor ...

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,

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. The village lies along the

Kamøyfjorden Kamøyfjorden () is a fjord on the northeastern side of the large island of Magerøya in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The long fjord runs from the Barents Sea southwest with two smaller fjords that branch off: the Skipsfjord ...

on the east side of the island of

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, about northwest of the town of

Honningsvåg Honningsvåg is the northernmost cities and towns, northernmost city/town in mainland Norway. It is located in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county. Honningsvåg was declared a city in 1996, despite its small population. The town has a po ...

. It sits at the end of a

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road, the Norwegian County Road 172. About south of the village, the road meets the

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, the main road leading to the North Cape. The village is sheltered from the open sea by the islands of Lille Kamøya and Store Kamøya, the water between the village and the latter being called the Østersundet. There are around 70 inhabitants in the village. Although there are no ethnic distinctions today, the people of the village are descended from coastal

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and

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as well as

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. In the summer of 2012, the labour force in the village included people from the

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. A small hotel/guesthouse called the ''Arran'', owned by a Sami family, occupies three blue-painted buildings in the centre of the village. One of them is right on the waters of the harbour and the other two are just across the road. The top floor of a house in the centre of the village contains an art gallery called the ''Gallery East of the Sun'' which displays and sells the work of a German-born artist, Eva Schmutterer, who lives in the village.

Hjalmarneset peninsula

There is a small

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, the Kamøyfjord light, on the hill on the Hjalmarneset peninsula at the north side of the village. There is also a small

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on the western side of this peninsula.

Kuvika

At Kuvika, a hamlet at the southern entrance to the village, there is a small fish processing plant on the side of the Risfjorden; this is supplied by the boats that use the harbour in the middle of the village.

Media gallery

Kamoyvaer4.jpg, Map of village, showing the Fv172 access road and location of harbour locationOfKamoyvaer2.jpg, Location of village, showing how its position is sheltered by two islands Kamøyvær, Noruega, 2019-09-03, DD 58-64 PAN.jpg, Centre of the village, taken from the Fv172 road on the south side of the harbour, with the waters of harbour on the right-hand side. The Kamøyfjord light can be seen on the top of the hill in the centre of the picture. Kamøyvær, Noruega, 2019-09-03, DD 49-55 PAN.jpg, Harbour, taken from the Fv172 road on the south side. Kamøyvær, Noruega, 2019-09-03, DD 57.jpg, Detail of a wooden house in the harbour. Faro en Kamøyvær, Noruega, 2019-09-03, DD 56.jpg, Kamøyvær lighthouse.

References

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