Nordvågen
Nordvågen or Nordvaagen is a settlement in the municipality of Nordkapp on the Norwegian island of Magerøya in the province of Troms og Finnmark with an area of 0.22 km² and around 422 inhabitants. The settlement is at 71 ° north, as is the Nordkapp and the main town of the island of Honningsvåg, which is about 3 km to the west . Nordvågen has the largest fishing port on the island. The road connection between Honningsvåg and Nordvågen is now secured by avalanche barriers and can be used all year round. To the south of the place is the island of Nordvågholmen .
Numerous reindeer have their summer pastures above the village.
The ski lift in Lilledalen on the outskirts is considered to be the northernmost in Europe.
At the end of the Second World War , this settlement, like all places on the island of Magerøya, was completely destroyed by the German Wehrmacht on November 11, 1944 because of the scorched earth policy ordered by Adolf Hitler as part of the Northern Lights company .
After the town was rebuilt, a shrimp factory was operated in Nordvågen, employing up to 100 people, but it was closed at the end of the 20th century.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå : Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality. ( Norwegian ) January 1, 2012. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ Nordvågen ( Norwegian ) yr.no . Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ a b Store norske leksikon : Nordvågen ( Norwegian ) Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ Einar Richter-Hanssen, Nordkapp - Gate to the Ice Sea - , publisher: Arctic Suvenir AS, 2011, ISBN 978-82-998690-0-3 , page 34
- ↑ Einar Richter-Hanssen, Nordkapp - Gate to the Arctic Ocean -, publisher: Arctic Suvenir AS, 2011, ISBN 978-82-998690-0-3 , page 119
Coordinates: 70 ° 59 ′ N , 26 ° 2 ′ E