Kilbotn
Kilbotn is a settlement in the area of the municipality of Harstad in the province ( Fylke ) Troms og Finnmark in Northern Norway . The Harstad municipality's cross-country skiing trail, which is approved for all competitions up to the World Cup , is located in Kilbotn .
geography
The place is located on the island of Hinnøya south of the city center on the western bank of Kilbotn Bay (Kilbotnbuka), a bulge of the Vågsfjord in its southwestern part, and north of the entrance from Vågsfjord into Tjeldsund , which leads to Ofotfjord and thus to Narvik .
Kilbotn is bypassed in the west by Reichsstraße 83 (Riksvei 83, Rv83), which runs from the Tjeldsund Bridge (1007 m long, clear height 41 m above water level), completed in 1967, and thus from European route 10 to Harstad.
history
In the Kilbotnbucht the German entertained Navy during the Second World War, from the autumn of 1944 a submarine -Stützpunkt from their U-boats of the Allied Arctic convoys of World War II could attack. There, the last was on May 4, 1945 Allied air raid of the war in Europe ( Operation Judgment ), the living and depot ship Black Watch , the supply ship Senja and the submarine U 711 by carrier-based torpedo and fighter-bombers of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy sunk.
Coordinates: 68 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ N , 16 ° 32 ′ 10 ″ E