Hornøya
Hornøya is a small, 0.4 square kilometres, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: easternmost island of Norway
- Also known as: “Hornö”, “Hornöen”, and “Hornøy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hornøya og Reinøya and Vardøhus Fortress.
Hornøya og Reinøya
Nature reserve
Photo: Onioram, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hornøya og Reinøya is a nature reserve.
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. Vardøhus Fortress is situated 3 km southwest of Hornøya.
Vardø Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Vardø Church is situated 2½ km southwest of Hornøya.
Hornøya
- Category: landform
- Location: Vardø, Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afar to Zulu—“Hornøya” goes by many names.
- Afar: “Hornøya”
- Afrikaans: “Hornøya”
- Akan: “Hornøya”
- Albanian: “Hornøya”
- Aragonese: “Hornøya”
- Arpitan: “Hornøya”
- Asturian: “Hornøya”
- Aymara: “Hornøya”
- Azerbaijani: “Hornøya”
- Bambara: “Hornøya”
- Banjar: “Hornøya”
- Basque: “Hornøya”
- Bavarian: “Hornøya”
- Bislama: “Hornøya”
- Bosnian: “Hornøya”
- Brahui: “Hornøya”
- Breton: “Hornøya”
- Catalan: “Hornøya”
- Cebuano: “Hornøya”
- Central Bikol: “Hornøya”
- Chamorro: “Hornøya”
- Chavacano: “Hornøya”
- Cherokee: “Hornøya”
- Cheyenne: “Hornøya”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Hornøya”
- Choctaw: “Hornøya”
- Corsican: “Hornøya”
- Cree: “Hornøya”
- Creek: “Hornøya”
- Crimean Tatar: “Hornøya”
- Croatian: “Hornøya”
- Czech: “Hornøya”
- Danish: “Hornøya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Hornøya”
- Dutch: “Hornøya”
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Hornøya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هورنويا”
- Esperanto: “Hornøya”
- Estonian: “Hornoya”
- Estonian: “Hornöya”
- Estonian: “Hornøya”
- Ewe: “Hornøya”
- Extremaduran: “Hornøya”
- Faroese: “Hornøya”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hornøya”
- Fijian: “Hornøya”
- Finnish: “Hornøya”
- French: “Hornøya”
- Friulian: “Hornøya”
- Fulah: “Hornøya”
- Gagauz: “Hornøya”
- Galician: “Hornøya”
- Ganda: “Hornøya”
- German: “Hornøya”
- Gheg Albanian: “Hornøya”
- Gothic: “Hornøya”
- Guarani: “Hornøya”
- Haitian: “Hornøya”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hornøya”
- Hausa: “Hornøya”
- Hawaiian: “Hornøya”
- Herero: “Hornøya”
- Hiri Motu: “Hornøya”
- Hungarian: “Hornøya”
- Icelandic: “Hornøya”
- Ido: “Hornøya”
- Igbo: “Hornøya”
- Iloko: “Hornøya”
- Indonesian: “Hornøya”
- Interlingua: “Hornøya”
- Interlingue: “Hornøya”
- Inuktitut: “Hornøya”
- Inupiaq: “Hornøya”
- Irish: “Hornøya”
- Italian: “Hornøya”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Hornøya”
- Japanese: “ホルノー”
- Javanese: “Hornøya”
- Kabyle: “Hornøya”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Hornøya”
- Kalaallisut: “Hornøya”
- Kanuri: “Hornøya”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Hornøya”
- Kashubian: “Hornøya”
- Kazakh: “Hornøya”
- Kikuyu: “Hornøya”
- Kinaray-A: “Hornøya”
- Kinyarwanda: “Hornøya”
- Kölsch: “Hornøya”
- Kongo: “Hornøya”
- Kuanyama: “Hornøya”
- Kurdish: “Hornøya”
- Ladino: “Hornøya”
- Latgalian: “Hornøya”
- Latin: “Hornøya”
- Latvian: “Hornøya”
- Laz: “Hornøya”
- Ligurian: “Hornøya”
- Limburgan: “Hornøya”
- Lingala: “Hornøya”
- Lithuanian: “Hornøya”
- Lojban: “Hornøya”
- Lombard: “Hornøya”
- Low German: “Hornøya”
- Lower Silesian: “Hornøya”
- Lower Sorbian: “Hornøya”
- Lozi: “Hornøya”
- Lushai: “Hornøya”
- Luxembourgish: “Hornøya”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Hornøya”
- Mainfränkisch: “Hornøya”
- Malay: “Hornøya”
- Maltese: “Hornøya”
- Maori: “Hornøya”
- Mapudungun: “Hornøya”
- Megleno Romanian: “Hornøya”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hornøya”
- Minangkabau: “Hornøya”
- Mirandese: “Hornøya”
- Narom: “Hornøya”
- Nauru: “Hornøya”
- Navajo: “Hornøya”
- Ndonga: “Hornøya”
- Neapolitan: “Hornøya”
- Northern Frisian: “Hornøya”
- Northern Sami: “Hornøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hornøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hornøya”
- Norwegian: “Hornøya”
- Novial: “Hornøya”
- Nyanja: “Hornøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hornøya”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hornøya”
- Oromo: “Hornøya”
- Pampanga: “Hornøya”
- Pangasinan: “Hornøya”
- Pedi: “Hornøya”
- Pennsylvania German: “Hornøya”
- Pfaelzisch: “Hornøya”
- Picard: “Hornøya”
- Piemontese: “Hornøya”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hornøya”
- Plautdietsch: “Hornøya”
- Polish: “Hornøya”
- Portuguese: “Hornøya”
- Quechua: “Hornøya”
- Romanian: “Hornøya”
- Romansh: “Hornøya”
- Rundi: “Hornøya”
- Samoan: “Hornøya”
- Samogitian: “Hornøya”
- Sango: “Hornøya”
- Santali: “Hornøya”
- Sardinian: “Hornøya”
- Sassarese Sardinian: “Hornøya”
- Saterfriesisch: “Hornøya”
- Scots: “Hornøya”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hornøya”
- Serbian: “Hornøya”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hornøya”
- Seri: “Hornøya”
- Shona: “Hornøya”
- Sicilian: “Hornøya”
- Silesian: “Hornøya”
- Slovak: “Hornøya”
- Slovenian: “Hornøya”
- Somali: “Hornøya”
- Southern Sami: “Hornøya”
- Southern Sotho: “Hornøya”
- Spanish: “Hornoya”
- Spanish: “Hornøya”
- Sranan Tongo: “Hornøya”
- Swahili: “Hornøya”
- Swedish: “Hornøya”
- Swiss German: “Hornøya”
- Tachelhit: “Hornøya”
- Tagalog: “Hornøya”
- Tahitian: “Hornøya”
- Tajik: “Hornøya”
- Tarifit: “Hornøya”
- Tatar: “Hornøya”
- Tetum: “Hornøya”
- Tok Pisin: “Hornøya”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Hornøya”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Hornøya”
- Tsonga: “Hornøya”
- Tswana: “Hornøya”
- Tumbuka: “Hornøya”
- Turkish: “Hornøya”
- Turkmen: “Hornøya”
- Turoyo: “Hornøya”
- Uighur: “Hornøya”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hornøya”
- Uzbek: “Hornøya”
- Venda: “Hornøya”
- Venetian: “Hornøya”
- Veps: “Hornøya”
- Vietnamese: “Hornøya”
- Vlaams: “Hornøya”
- Vlax Romani: “Hornøya”
- Volapük: “Hornøya”
- Votic: “Hornøya”
- Walloon: “Hornøya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hornøya”
- Welsh: “Hornøya”
- Western Frisian: “Hornøya”
- Wolof: “Hornøya”
- Xhosa: “Hornøya”
- Yoruba: “Hornøya”
- Zeeuws: “Hornøya”
- Zhuang: “Hornøya”
- Zulu: “Hornøya”
- “Hornøya”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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