Kjerkestappen
Kjerkestappen is an uninhabited island in Norway and belongs to the municipality of Nordkapp in the Norwegian province of Troms og Finnmark .
It belongs to the Gjesværstappan archipelago in the Northern European Sea, which is a designated nature reserve . On its northwest side is Storstappen, the largest island in the group. To the southeast is Bukkstappen , to the northeast the smaller island group Brødskjæran . Kjerkestappen is about 900 meters long in a west-east direction and up to 600 meters wide. The highest point of Kjerkestappen rises 166 meters above sea level.
The island was inhabited in the past and had a church until 1753. In August 1795, the future French King Louis-Philippe I , Count Gustave de Montjoie , the pastor of Måsøy , Tobias Brodtkorb Bernhoft and probably also the servant Baudoin stayed with fisherman Bastian Abrahamsen Rosenkrantz on the island on their trip to the nearby North Cape . Many seabirds live on the island today. The nature reserve to which the island belongs has existed since January 28, 1983.
Web links
- Kjerkestappen on www.norwegianfjordscruise.com (English)
- Representation of the island in the Kartverket
Individual evidence
- ↑ Svein Askheim, Stappan in the Norske Leksikon store
- ↑ Kjersti Skavhaug , To the North Cape, Famous journeys from the Viking Age to the year 1800 , Nordkapplitteratur A / S, Honningsvåg, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 82-7579-0069 , page 43
- ↑ Geir Systad Gjesværstappan sjøfuglreservat , page 3 (Norwegian) ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 71 ° 8 ' N , 25 ° 22' E