Skorpa (Kvænangen)
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| Waters | Kvænangen -Fjord, Northern European Sea | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 56 ' N , 21 ° 42' E | |
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| surface | 8.26 km 2 | |
| Highest elevation | Varden 307 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Skorpa ( Northern Sami : Skárfu) is a now uninhabited island in the southern part of the Kvænangen fjord ; it belongs to the municipality of Kvænangen in the province ( Fylke ) Troms og Finnmark in Norway . It has an area of 8.26 km 2 and at the top of Mount Varden it reaches a height of 307 m above sea level . The island can only be reached by boat. The last permanent resident left Skorpa around 1980.
history
Kvænangen municipality
The island was once the administrative center of the municipality of Kvænangen until it was moved to Burfjord in the 20th century , and also housed the church, which, with its 300 seats, has been rarely used since a new church was built on the mainland in Sekkemo in 1956.
Skorpa prisoner of war camp
After the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, the Norwegian 6th Division, stationed in Northern Norway, set up a prisoner-of-war camp on the island in mid-May . Most of the members of the Wehrmacht who were captured in northern Norway, especially in the Narvik area, were housed there; likewise, in the absence of alternative accommodation, the interned crews of German merchant and fishing ships confiscated or sunk in Norway . The prisoners were initially housed in tents for 16 men each, but then began to build a number of wooden barracks under the guidance of Norwegian craftsmen in order to be able to survive the next winter. By the beginning of June, a total of around 500 prisoners had been brought into the camp. The highest ranking among them was frigate captain Alfred Schulze-Hinrichs , commander of the destroyer Z 13 Erich Koellner , who was sunk on April 13 near Narvik. On June 12, 1940, the inmates of the camp were informed of the Norwegian surrender , released and taken to Tromsø on two Norwegian ships that same night , where they came back into German hands when the city was occupied by the Germans on June 14. 40 members of the Luftwaffe were exempt from the exemption , including a number of pilots who had been brought to Great Britain a few days earlier with the Allied troops withdrawing from Harstad .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Skorpa-kirke-Kvaenangen (accessed on March 10, 2013)
- ↑ Kjell Fjørtoft: På feil side - The other side. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo, 1991, ISBN 82-05-20231-1 , p. 15. (norweg.)