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. Vardø Lighthouse is situated 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.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 70 metres (210 feet)
- Description: island in Vardø municipality, Norway
- Also known as“Hornö”“Hornöen”“Hornøy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hornøya og Reinøya and Vardøhus Fortress.
Vardøhus Fortress
Museum
Vardøhus Fortress, called "Wardhouse" in English… Vardøhus Fortress is situated 3 km southwest of Hornøya.
Vardø Church
Church
Vardø Church is a parish church of the Church… Vardø Church is situated 2½ km southwest of Hornøya.
Hornøya
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Latitude
70.38727° or 70° 23′ 14″ north
Longitude
31.15657° or 31° 9′ 24″ east
Open location code
CG2H95P4+WJ
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Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “Hornøy”
- Danish: “Hornøya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Hornøya”
- Dutch: “Hornøya”
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Hornøya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هورنويا”
- Emilian: “Hornøya”
- Esperanto: “Hornøya”
- Estonian: “Hornøya”
- Ewe: “Hornøya”
- Extremaduran: “Hornøya”
- Faroese: “Hornøya”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hornøya”
- Fijian: “Hornøya”
- Finnish: “Hornøy”
- Finnish: “Hornøya”
- French: “Hornøya”
- Friulian: “Hornøya”
- Fulah: “Hornøya”
- Gagauz: “Hornøya”
- Galician: “Hornøya”
- Ganda: “Hornøya”
- German: “Hornøy”
- 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”
- Jèrriais: “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”
- Nauru: “Hornøya”
- Navajo: “Hornøya”
- Ndonga: “Hornøya”
- Neapolitan: “Hornøya”
- Northern Frisian: “Hornøya”
- Northern Sami: “Hornøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hornøy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hornøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hornøy”
- 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: “Hornøya”
- Sranan Tongo: “Hornøya”
- Swahili: “Hornøya”
- Swedish: “Hornøy”
- 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”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Vestervågen and Vardø.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Vardø Lighthouse and Fuglefjellet.
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