Svolvær
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- Type: Town with 4,810 residents
- Description: town in Vågan Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Spålavuolle” and “Suolvearra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lofoten War Memorial Museum and Svolvær Church.
Lofoten War Memorial Museum
Museum
Photo: Wolfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lofoten War Memorial Museum is a World War II museum located in Svolvær, Norway. It focuses on providing informative content about the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on events that took place in the Lofoten area and Northern Norway during the German occupation of Norway.
Svolvær Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Svolvær Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the town of Svolvær on the island of Austvågøya.
Svolværgeita
Peak
Photo: David Torras, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Geita or Svolværgeita is a 150-metre tall pinnacle at the southwest face of the mountain Fløyfjellet on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago.
Svolvær
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Vågan, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.23217° or 68° 13′ 56″ northLongitude
14.5646° or 14° 33′ 53″ eastPopulation
4,810IATA airport code
SVJUnited Nations Location Code
NO SVJOpen location code
9FWP6HJ7+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 31264147OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Svolvær” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սվոլյեր”
- Armenian: “Սվոլվեր”
- Asturian: “Svolvær”
- Bulgarian: “Сволвер”
- Catalan: “Svolvær”
- Cebuano: “Svolvær”
- Chinese: “斯沃尔韦尔”
- Chinese: “斯沃爾韋爾”
- Czech: “Svolvær”
- Danish: “Svolvær”
- Dutch: “Svolvaer”
- Dutch: “Svolvær”
- Finnish: “Svolvaer”
- Finnish: “Svolvær”
- French: “Svolvaer”
- French: “Svolvær”
- German: “Svolvaer”
- German: “Svolvær”
- Hebrew: “סבולבר”
- Hungarian: “Svolvær”
- Italian: “Svolvaer”
- Italian: “Svolvær”
- Japanese: “スヴォルヴァール”
- Japanese: “スボルベル”
- Luxembourgish: “Svolvær”
- Macedonian: “Сволвер”
- Northern Sami: “Svolvær”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Svolvær”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svolvær”
- Norwegian: “Svolvær”
- Persian: “اسولور”
- Romanian: “Svolvær”
- Russian: “Свольвер”
- Serbian: “Svolvær”
- Serbian: “Svolver”
- Serbian: “Сволвер”
- Slovak: “Svolvær”
- Slovenian: “Svolvear”
- Spanish: “Svolvaer”
- Spanish: “Svolvær”
- Swedish: “Svolvaer”
- Swedish: “Svolvær”
- Ukrainian: “Сволвер”
- “Svolvær”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Svolvær”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.