Melkøya

Melkøya or Muolkkut is an in in county, . The 0.69-square-kilometre island is connected to the town of Hammerfest by the 2,316 metres-long Melkøysund Tunnel, which was completed in 2003.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Hammerfest, Norway
  • Also known as: “Melkøen”, “Melkøy”, “Melköya”, “Mjelkøya”, and “Muolkkut”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hammerfest Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Manxruler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a regional airport at Prærien just outside the town of Hammerfest in in county, . It is operated by the state-owned Avinor and handled 145,396 passengers in 2014, making it the third-busiest regional airport in the country. is situated 3 km southeast of Melkøya.

Melkøya

Latitude
70.68997° or 70° 41′ 24″ north
Longitude
23.59899° or 23° 35′ 56″ east
United Nations Location Code
NO MLK
Open location code
CG25MHQX+XH
Geo­Names ID
778665
Wiki­data ID
Q1356784
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Satellite Map

Discover Melkøya from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Melkøya” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Muolkot”
  • Chinese: “牛奶岛”
  • Czech: “Melkøya”
  • Danish: “Melkøya”
  • Dutch: “Melkøya”
  • French: “Melkøya”
  • German: “Melkøya”
  • Northern Sami: “Muolkkut”
  • Northern Sami: “Muolkot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melkøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melkøya”
  • Norwegian: “Melkøya”
  • Spanish: “Melkøya”
  • Swedish: “Melkøya”
  • Turkish: “Melkøya”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелькея”

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