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The Best Attractions In Vardo

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Wild Varanger

Kiberg Kystfort

Hornoya Vardo Light House

Hornoya

Hamningberg Old Fishing Village

Vardo Tourist Information

The Pomor Museum

Steilneset Memorial

Soviet Liberation Monument

Treriksroysa

Vardø is a municipality in Finnmark county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vardø. Two of the larger villages in the municipality are Kiberg and Svartnes. The 601-square-kilometre municipality is the 186th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Vardø is the 322nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,104. The municipality's population density is 3.6 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has decreased by 8% over the last decade.
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1. Steilneset Memorial Vardo
The Steilneset Memorial is a monument in Vardø, Norway, commemorating the trial and execution in 1621 of 91 people for witchcraft. The memorial was designed by artist Louise Bourgeois and architect Peter Zumthor and was opened in 2011. It was Bourgeois' last major work.
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2. Hamningberg Old Fishing Village Vardo
3. Vardoehus Fortress Vardo
4. Hornoya Vardo
Hornøya is a small, uninhabited island in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It lies in the Barents Sea, just east of the larger island of Vardøya where the town of Vardø is located. Vardø Lighthouse is the only man-made object on the 0.4-square-kilometre island. The lighthouse sits at the highest point of the island, at an elevation of 65 metres above sea level, and it protects the shipping lanes around the town of Vardø. The island is the easternmost point of Norway proper.
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5. The Partisan Museum Vardo
6. The Pomor Museum Vardo
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it a mediterranean sea or an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It is also seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World Ocean. Located mostly in the Arctic north polar region in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere, the Arctic Ocean is almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America. It is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year and almost completely in winter. The Arctic Ocean's surface temperature and salinity vary seasonally as the ice cover melts and freezes; its salinity is the lowest on average of the fi...
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7. Hornoya Vardo Light House Vardo
8. Kiberg Kystfort Vardo
9. Wild Varanger Vardo
10. Soviet Liberation Monument Kirkenes
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the organisation. The conflict began after the Soviets sought to obtain some Finnish territory, demanding among other concessions that Finland cede substantial border territories in exchange for land elsewhere, claiming security reasons—primarily the protection of Leningrad, 32 km from the Finnish border. Finland refused, and the USSR invaded the country. Many sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all Finland,...
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11. Andersgrotta Bomb Shelter Kirkenes
12. Treriksroysa Kirkenes

Vardo Videos

Four Days in Arctic Norway - Finnmark and Tromsø - Travel Show with Glenn Campbell

1-4 October 2015: Touring the northern coast of Norway, above the Arctic Circle, with extreme budget traveler Glenn Campbell. Driving from Kirkenes and Vardø near the Russian border to Tromsø in the west. Traveling in early October, just before winter closes in.

Filmed in full 1080p HD. For best detail, watch in fullscreen mode.

Visiting: Kirkenes, the Russia-Norway Border, Steilneset Memorial, Vardø, Vadsø, Olderfjord, Tromsø, Vestre Jakobselv, Banak Fort, Repparfjord.

Also see related video: How to Sleep in a Rental Car

Portions of this travel documentary are available in separate videos:
-- Russia-Norway border (with add'l footage):
-- Vardo Witch Memorial:
-- Not going to Nordkapp:
-- Scenes from Vardo:
-- Banak Fort:

Also see Glenn's Instagram posts from Norway, including excerpts from thi video, at

Video by Glenn Campbell,

Scenes from Vardø, Norway

Excerpt from a half-hour travel video Four Days in Arctic Norway at

Some random scenes from the town of Vardø, in the extreme northeast corner of Norway, above the Arctic Circle. Shot 1 October 2015. (Does not include the fortress and witch trials monument.)

Same video on Instagram:

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Northern Norway in Winter

Locations, Tromso, Hammerfest, Vardo, Vadso, Nordkapp, Honningsvag, Kirkenes. At this time of year (December) the sun doesn't come up, only a few hours of dusk. one of the highlights was a trip to Nordkapp (Northcape) 71˚ North and the most northerly point in Europe. A fantastic country, Hopefully go back soon.

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Nordkapp Tour | Norway Artic circle, Atlantic Ocean Road, Lofoten, Trollstigen, Geirangerfjord...

This video previously contained a song that has been adopted, but is now copyrighted audio track. The audio track has been permanently muted because of a claim by a copyright holder.

Road trip from the Netherlands to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland to the North Cape in Norway. Tour highlights includes: the North Cape, Malmo, Vardo, Artic Circle, Atlantic Ocean Road, the Lofoten, Geirangerfjord, Trollstigen, Bryggen Bergen and a lot more. Duration 16 days, 10.000 km, 6 countrys motorcycle tour.

Camera: Gopro Hero

Music:
Secrets From The Underground
Enter Sandman
The Future Is Now
Hell on Wheels
Whiskey In The Jar

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Finnmark - Norway

Finnmark or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland) to the south and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.

The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt, and since 2002, has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Sami language). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.

Situated at the Northernmost part of continental Europe, where Norway swings eastward, Finnmark has always been an area where east meets west, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in the country, is located farther east than St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
The Norse form of the name was Finnmörk. The first element is finn(ar), the Norse name for the Sámi people. The last element is mörk which means woodland or borderland. In Norse times the name was referring to any places where Sámi people were living (also parts of Southern Norway).

More recently, Finnmark is also the older name for Lapland in Sweden and is used by some inhabitants in this region. The title comes from Linné's expeditions in the northern Nordic regions during the 18th century, and his choice of name was influenced by the history of the region.
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