Kilbotn Bay
| Kilbotn Bay Kilbotnbuka |
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| Waters | European Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Scandinavian peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 43 '30 " N , 16 ° 33' 54" E | |
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The Kilbotnbucht ( "Kilbotnbuka") is a bay in Kilbotn on the island Hinnøya in northern Norway . It is located in the area of the municipality of Harstad in the Fylke (province) Troms og Finnmark about 10 km south of the city of Harstad.
geography
Kilbotn Bay is a bulge of Vågsfjord in its southwestern part, not far north of the entrance from Vågsfjord into Tjeldsund , which leads to Ofotfjord and thus to Narvik . It stretches for about 3 km from northeast to southwest and gradually widens from its only 500 m wide entrance in the northeast to the south to about 1.5 km.
Reichsstraße 83 (Riksvei 83, Rv83), which leads 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, runs not far from the bay along its western bank.
history
Kilbotn Bay forms a good natural harbor , and the German navy maintained one of Hammerfest during the Second World War from October 1944, when the Wehrmacht had to evacuate northern Norway and set up the so-called "Lyngen line" (or Lyngen position) further south-west on the Lyngenfjord submarine base relocated there, from which their submarines could attack the allied northern convoys . In Kilbotn Bay on May 4, 1945, during the last Allied air raid of the war in Europe ( Operation Judgment ), the living and depot ship Black Watch , the submarine U 711 and the supply ship Senja were destroyed by carrier-supported torpedo and fighter bombers from Fleet Air Sunk arm of the Royal Navy .