Kvæfjord
| Kvæfjord | ||
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| Waters | European Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Scandinavian peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 48 '36 " N , 16 ° 4' 12" E | |
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| Tributaries | Straumsbotn | |
The Kvæfjord is a fjord in the north of Vesterålen - Island Hinnøya , west of Harstad , in the Fylke (Province) Troms og Finnmark in Northern Norway .
The fjord, a southern branch of the Andfjord sea passage that runs between the two islands of Andøya and Senja , is located in the municipality of Kvæfjord, which is named after it . It is about 17 km long and begins, in a narrower sense, between Bremnes in the east and the island of Gapøya in the west, in the west or southwest of which the Godfjord branches off to the south.
The Kvæfjord initially runs in a south-westerly direction, but then turns to the south-east between Røyknes and Elde. In this southern section of the fjord lies the approximately 7 km long island of Kvæøya, to which there is a ferry connection from Borkenes , the capital of the municipality of Kvæfjord, on the eastern bank of the fjord called Bygdesund. West of Kvæøya begins the Gullesfjord , which extends far south into the interior of the island and almost cuts it in two with the Øksfjord coming from the south-west .
The Kvæfjord ends in the south at the small village of Straumen. There, the light coming from Harstad in the northeast provincial road crosses 83 (Fv83) a narrow and rapidly flowing, about 300 m long passage from the brackish , fed by a plurality of mountain streams, about 4 km long and up to 1 km wide Straumsbotn which, after Connects to the southeast.
Provincial road 1 (Fv1) runs along the entire northeast bank of the fjord and ends in Borkenes, where it merges into Fv849. This in turn ends about 3 km south of Borkenes with its confluence with the Fv83, which then runs to Straumen and further on the south and south-west banks of the Kvæfjord and finally on the east bank of the Gullesfjord.