Sør-Tverrfjord is a village in
Loppa Municipality
Loppa ( sme, Láhppi and fkv, Lappea) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Øksfjord. Other villages in Loppa include Andsnes, Bergsfjord, Langfjordhamn, Lopp ...
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 country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. 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
Sandland to the north, and it is connected to the rest of Norway by a
ferry from Sør-Tverrfjord to the village 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 then onwards to the village of
Øksfjord. The isolated village of
Langfjordhamn
Langfjordhamn is a village in Loppa Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Langfjorden, about southeast of the village of Sør-Tverrfjord. The village is very isolated with no road access, o ...
lies about to the southeast at the end of the fjord, accessible only by boat. The
Langfjordjøkelen
Langfjordjøkelen ( sme, Bártnatvuonjiehkki) is a glacier that is located in Troms og Finnmark county in Norway, making it one of the northernmost glaciers on the mainland of Norway. The glacier is located on the border of Loppa Municipality an ...
glacier lies about south of Sør-Tverrfjord.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Loppa
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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