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The Best Attractions In Gamvik Municipality

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Gamvik is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mehamn. The other main villages in Gamvik include Gamvik and Skjånes. Gamvik is known as one of the poorest and most undeveloped municipalities in Norway. The number of inhabitants rose at one moment in 2012, but in 2014, after the fish factory closed, the population declined dramatically with the departure of the eastern European fishermen. Most people live in the village of Mehamn , which has an airport, Mehamn Airport, and is also a port of call of the hurtigruten coastal boats. The Slettnes Lighthouse near the village of Gamvik is t...
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The Best Attractions In Gamvik Municipality

  • 1. Gamvik Museum Gamvik
    Gamvik is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mehamn. The other main villages in Gamvik include Gamvik and Skjånes. Gamvik is known as one of the poorest and most undeveloped municipalities in Norway. The number of inhabitants rose at one moment in 2012, but in 2014, after the fish factory closed, the population declined dramatically with the departure of the eastern European fishermen. Most people live in the village of Mehamn , which has an airport, Mehamn Airport, and is also a port of call of the hurtigruten coastal boats. The Slettnes Lighthouse near the village of Gamvik is the northernmost lighthouse on the mainland of Europe. Nervei and Langfjordbotn are two very small villages in southern Gamvik that are only ...
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  • 2. Slettnes Fyr Gamvik Municipality
    Slettnes Lighthouse is the northernmost lighthouse on the European mainland. It is located in Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It sits along the Barents Sea approximately 3 kilometres north of the village of Gamvik on the northern coast of the Nordkinn Peninsula. The 39-metre lighthouse is the only cast iron lighthouse in Finnmark county.This is the easternmost of the three Nordkapp area lighthouses, and it is often considered the North Cape Light, marking the top of Europe. Fruholmen Lighthouse is located about 500 metres farther north, on the island of Ingøya, but the Slettnes Lighthouse is the northernmost lighthouse on the mainland of Scandinavia.
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  • 3. Bamse statue Honningsvag
    Bamse was a St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the Second World War. He became a symbol of Norwegian freedom during the war.
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  • 5. Honningsvag Church Nordkapp Municipality
    Honningsvåg Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Honningsvåg on the eastern end of the island of Magerøya. It is the main church for the Nordkapp parish which is part of the Hammerfest prosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, neo-gothic, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1885 by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 220 people.
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  • 6. The Gallery - East of the Sun Nordkapp Municipality
    This is a list of various northernmost things on earth.
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