Sør-Tverrfjord is a village in

Loppa Municipality Loppa ( and ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Øksfjord. Other villages in Loppa include Andsnes, Bergsfjord, Lan ...

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 Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. 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 or is a village in Loppa Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland part of Loppa, along the Sandlandsfjorden, across from the uninhabited island of Silda (Finnmark), Silda. The nearby village of Sør-Tver ...

to the north, and it is connected to the rest of Norway by a

ferry A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus ...

from Sør-Tverrfjord to the village of

Bergsfjord Bergsfjord is a village in Loppa Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland part of Loppa Municipality, along the Bergsfjorden, across from the island of Silda (Finnmark), Silda. The village of Sør-Tverrfjord ...

and then onwards to the village of

Øksfjord , , or is the administrative centre of Loppa Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the east side of the Øksfjorden (Finnmark), Øksfjorden, just south of the mouth of the fjord. Øksfjord Church is located in the v ...

. The isolated village of

Langfjordhamn Langfjordhamn is a village in Loppa Municipality in 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, only boat ac ...

lies about to the southeast at the end of the fjord, accessible only by boat. The

Langfjordjøkelen or is a glacier that is located on the border of Finnmark and Troms counties in Norway, making it one of the northernmost glaciers on the mainland of Norway. The glacier is located on the border of Loppa Municipality and Kvænangen Municipali ...

glacier lies about south of Sør-Tverrfjord.

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Villages in Finnmark Loppa Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Finnmark-geo-stub