Porsanger Peninsula
Coordinates: 70 ° 30 ′ 0 " N , 24 ° 40 ′ 12" E
The Porsanger Peninsula (Norwegian: Porsangerhalvøya ) is a large peninsula in the Norwegian province ( Fylke ) Troms og Finnmark . It lies between the Altafjord in the west and the Porsangerfjord in the east. Administratively, the peninsula belongs to the municipalities of Alta, Kvalsund , Måsøy , Nordkapp and Porsanger .
landscape
The west coast in particular is divided by a number of fjords , the largest being the 13 km long Repparfjord , 20 km long Revsbotn and 11 km long Snefjord (also Snøfjord). In the north, the 20 km long Kobbefjord cuts far into the peninsula.
The landscape is a largely treeless plateau with numerous small lakes, which merges into the Finnmarksvidda in the south . The Stabbursdalen National Park is located east of Alta at the southeastern end of the peninsula.
traffic
There are only a few roads on the peninsula. The European route 6 runs in a long north-south curve through the southern part of the peninsula; where it turns in the north, the north-east running European route 69 joins, which leads at the northeast end of the peninsula through the north cape tunnel to the island of Magerøya and the north cape there . About 30 km north of Alta, the Fylkesvei (provincial road) 883 branches off to the west to the east bank of the Altafjord, which it then follows north to the south bank of the Korsfjord . About 70 km further north, the Riksvei 94 branches off to the west to Hammerfest on the island of Kvaløya . And about 4 km north of the junction of the E69 from the E6, Fylkesvei 889 turns north-west and leads to the far north-west end of the peninsula and there over the Havøysund Bridge to Havøysund .
history
During the Second World War , German troops set up a defensive position on the peninsula with guns, trenches and barracks. Apart from practice shots, however, the guns were not used actively here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Einar Richter-Hanssen: Nordkapp - Gate to the Arctic Ocean. Arctic Suvenir AS, 2011, ISBN 978-82-998690-0-3 , pp. 33, 38.