Malangsfjord

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Malangsfjord
Malangen, Málatvuotna, Malankivuono
View from the Nordfjord to the northwest of the Malangsfjord with the island of Spilderøya. [1]

View from the Nordfjord to the northwest of the Malangsfjord with the island of Spilderøya.

Waters European Arctic Ocean
Land mass Scandinavian peninsula
Geographical location 69 ° 25 '  N , 18 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 69 ° 25 '  N , 18 ° 26'  E
Malangsfjord (Troms and Finnmark)
Malangsfjord
width approx. 6 km
length 60 km
Islands Forøya, Spilderøya, Mesterøya, Hjertøya
Tributaries Sandelva, Målselva

The Malangsfjord or Malangen ( North Sami Málatvuotna , Kven Malankivuono ) is a fjord south of the city of Tromsø in the province of Troms og Finnmark in North Norge , Norway . It lies in the area of ​​the municipalities of Tromsø in the north and Senja , Målselv and Balsfjord in the south.

The fjord

The fjord, which is up to 6 km wide, stretches over a length of around 60 km from its entrance in the north-west between the small islands of Hekkinga in the south and Edøya in the north , off Senja and Kvaløy , to the settlement of Nordfjordbotn at the south-east end of its northern fjord. In the north-west it separates the large islands of Senja in the south and Kvaløy in the north and, strictly speaking, is not yet a fjord, but a sound . Then the Straumsfjord branches off to the northeast (between Kvaløy and the mainland) and the Gisund to the southwest (between Senja and the mainland), through which the southern shipping route to Tromsø runs.

The Hekkingen beacon on Hekkinga at the entrance to the Malangsfjord

The Malangsford then cuts deep into mainland Norway in a south-easterly direction. First the elongated, narrow Rossfjord branches off to the south, shortly afterwards the Sandelva flows into the fjord from the northeast between Mortenhals and Sand, then the Målselvfjord (at the end of which the river Målselva joins) and finally the Aursfjord branches off to the south . The Malangen itself finally turns into the Nordfjord and ends at Nordfjordbotn in the area of ​​the municipality of Balsfjord .

Islands

Islands in the fjord are Forøya and Spilderøya in the actual Malangsfjord and Mesterøya and Hjertøya in the southernmost part of the Nordfjord, the Nordfjordbotn.

Malangstief

The continuation of the Malangsfjord in the North Sea is the up to 450 m deep Malangstief (Norw. Malangsdypet), a shoal north of Senja between the Malangsgrund and the Sveinsgrund.

Settlements

The narrow strips of land along the coasts below the towering mountains are particularly populated on the south side of Kvaløy, the northwest coast of the inner Malangen and along the Rossfjord, the Målselvfjord and the Nordfjord. Larger settlements are located at the fjord entrance with Sommarøy and Brensholmen in the extreme southwest of Kvaløy and Laukvik on the northern tip of Senja and in the fjord interior with Tennskjær, Mortenhals and Sand (on Malangen itself), Rossfjord and Rossfjordstraumen (on Rossfjord), Målsnesfjord (on Målselvjord) , Aursfjordbotn (by the Aursfjord) and Nordby, Mestervik and Nordfjordbotn (by the Nordfjord).

The Malangsfjord is of historical importance because in the Middle Ages it represented the approximate northern limit of grain cultivation and thus also of Norwegian settlement, beyond which the Sami region extended.

traffic

Almost everywhere there are roads along the banks of the fjord. Only the Rossfjord is spanned by an approximately 30 m long bridge at its narrowest point at Rossfjordstraumen. A ferry crosses the Malangsfjord in the northwest near its entrance between Brensholmen on Kvaløy and Botnhamn on Senja .

The coastal shipping route from Harstad to Tromsø, on which the Hurtigruten also operates, runs from the Gisund in the south-west for about 15 kilometers east-northeast through the Maslangsfjord and then enters the Straumsfjord.

etymology

The name Malangen is derived from the old Norse words málr (= sack, alluding to the broad shape of the fjord) and angr (= fjord).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ To the left of the island the mouth of the Rossfjord. The Malangen turns left (west) in the picture above; in the upper center of the picture the entrance to the Straumsfjord leading to Tromsø.
  2. ↑ Malangsdypet, in the store norske leksikon
  3. ^ Ingvild Øye: Norges Landbrukshistorie. Samlaget, 2002
  4. ↑ Malangen - fjord, in the store norske leksikon

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