Vardøya
Vardøya, Várggáidsuolu, or Vuoreansaari is an island in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The 3.7-square-kilometre island is the location of the town of Vardø.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Finnmark, Norway
- Also known as: “Vardö”, “Vardöen”, “Vardøhus”, “Vardøy”, and “Vardoya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vardø Church and Vardøhus Fortress.
Vardø Church
Church
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Vardø Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Vardø on the island of Vardøya.
Vardøhus Fortress
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vardøhus Fortress, called "Wardhouse" in English historical navigations, is located in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Vardø on the island of Vardøya on the Barents Sea near the mouth of the Varangerfjord in northeastern Norway near the Russian border.
Steilneset Memorial
Monument
Photo: Stylegar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Steilneset Memorial is a monument in the town of Vardø in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The monument commemorates the trial and execution in 1621 of 91 people for witchcraft.
Vardøya
- Category: landform
- Location: Vardø, Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Vardøya” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vardøya”
- Danish: “Vardøya”
- Dutch: “Vardøya”
- French: “Vardoya”
- French: “Vardøya”
- German: “Vardøya”
- Italian: “Vardøya”
- Northern Sami: “Vardøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vardøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Várggáidsuolu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vuoreansaari”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vardøya”
- Norwegian: “Vardøya”
- Polish: “Vardøya”
- Turkish: “Vardøya”
- Ukrainian: “Вардея”
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Localities in the Area
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