The Sværholtklubben Nature Reserve is a protected area of land at the northern tip of the

Sværholt Peninsula The Sværholt Peninsula ( or ) is a peninsula in Finnmark county, Norway. The peninsula lies between the Porsangerfjorden and Laksefjorden in the municipalities of Nordkapp, Lebesby, and Porsanger Porsanger may refer to: Places * Porsanger Mun ...

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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. It comprises a rugged promontory with steep cliffs that provide nesting sites for some 40,000

seabird Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adaptation, adapted to life within the marine ecosystem, marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent ...

s. A 220 ha area encompassing the reserve and its adjacent marine waters has been designated an

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

(IBA) by

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Nordkapp Lebesby Porsanger Nature reserves in Norway Important Bird Areas of Norway Important Bird Areas of the Arctic Seabird colonies {{Finnmark-geo-stub