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unusual facts about Elvenes, Finnmark


Elvenes

Elvenes, Finnmark, a village in Sør-Varanger municipality, Finnmark county, Norway


Alta Battalion

During the occupation many former members of the battalion were active in the resistance movement, mostly working with gathering intelligence on German forces in Finnmark.

Alta controversy

The Alta controversy refers to a political controversy in Norway in the late 1970s and early 1980s concerning the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in the Alta river in Finnmark, Northern Norway.

Alta, Norway

Their bodies were buried in graves just outside the Kåfjord Church graveyard in the village of Kåfjord in Alta, but their heads were sent on to the Anatomisk Institute at the Kong Medical Frederiks University in Oslo, where they were kept for more than a century as part of the university's skull collections.

Arctic view

Arctic View is the name of a viewpoint and restaurant located on the northwestern tip of the island of Havøya in Måsøy Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

Bjørn-Inge Larsen

From 1990 to 2000, Larsen served as the county chief physician in Buskerud, Finnmark and Vestfold.

Common Merganser

Notably, most of the western European male population migrates north to estuaries in Finnmark in northern Norway (principally Tanafjord) to moult, leaving the females to care for the ducklings.

Elvenes

Hårek Elvenes, a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Finnmarksløpet

The race starts on Saturday of the 10th week of the year and goes across Finnmark in Norway.

German destroyer Z13 Erich Koellner

The captured crewmen were first incarcerated in Vardøhus Fortress in Finnmark and later transferred to Skorpa prisoner of war camp in Troms until released after the end of the Norwegian Campaign.

Hans Gabrielsen

This demand originated in a fear of a possible Soviet occupation of Eastern Finnmark, as had happened in Poland in 1939.

Helga þáttr Þórissonar

On the way back from a trading voyage to Finnmark with his brother, Helgi Þórisson becomes lost in a foggy wood and meets Ingibjörg, daughter of King Godmund of Glæsisvellir, and her retinue of 11 women, all wearing red and riding red horses.

Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Northern Norway

To the east the border runs along the 30th meridian east, although it extend further east for the areas of western Finnmark and its territorial waters which extend east of the meridian.

Karelian Front

In October 1944 it conducted the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation, capturing some parts of northern Finland and liberating the easternmost parts of the Norwegian Finnmark province from German occupation.

Komsa culture

The culture is named after the Komsa Mountain in the community of Alta, Finnmark, where the remains of the culture were first discovered.

Lille Kamøya

Lille Kamøya, Hammerfest, an island in Hammerfest municipality, Finnmark county

Lille Kamøya, Nordkapp, an island in Nordkapp municipality, Finnmark county

Luís Miguel Loureiro

His main assignments to date as a national TV senior reporter were being a war correspondent in Beirut and Tyre (Lebanon) during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, special reporting from Phuket and Khao Lak areas on the effects and recovery process from the 2004 asian tsunami catastrophe in Thailand and an in-depth report on the living conditions of a far-North cod fishing community, the town of Batsfjord, in the Finnmark region of Norway.

Neiden

Neiden, Norway, a village in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark county, Norway

Neiden Chapel, a chapel in the village of Neiden, Sør-Varanger, Finnmark county, Norway

Nordfjorden

Nordfjord, Finnmark, an abandoned village in Båtsfjord municipality, Finnmark county, Norway

Rasmus Hansson

As a student he was among the environmental activists that protested the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in the Alta river in Finnmark during the Alta controversy.

Samuel Balto

Samuel Balto, together with 113 other people from Finnmark were hired by Sheldon Jackson to be involved in the introduction of reindeer in Alaska.

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Skipsfjorden

Skipsfjorden, Magerøya, a bay on the eastern side of Magerøya in Nordkapp municipality in Finnmark

Sørvær

Sørvær, Finnmark, a village in Hasvik municipality, Finnmark county, Norway

Station Group Banak

Increased range of Soviet aircraft during the 1970s diminished the need for troops in Finnmark; combined with Norwegian tension and nuclear policies, this caused the United States to favor Vestfjorden and Troms over Banak as the primary areas of defense.

Store Kamøya

Store Kamøya, Hammerfest, an island in Hammerfest municipality, Finnmark county

Store Kamøya, Nordkapp, an island in Nordkapp municipality, Finnmark county

Suolojávri

Guolehis Suolojávri, a lake in Kautokeino municipality, Finnmark, Norway

Syltefjorden

Nordfjord, Finnmark (also known as Syltefjord), an abandoned fishing village in Båtsfjord Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway

Talvik

Talvik, Norway, village and former municipality in Finnmark county, Norway

Talvik Church, a church in Alta municipality, Finnmark county, Norway

Alta-Talvik, a former municipality in Finnmark county, Norway


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