Northern Norway
Finnmark
Sør-Varanger Municipality

Melkefoss

Melkefoss is a locality in , . Melkefoss is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: village in Sør-Varanger municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Mââjdõk”, “Máiddik”, and “Maitokoski”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Melkefoss hydroelectric station.

Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Melkefoss power station is a hydro electric dam on the river in the in , . The power station, which is owned by Pasvik Kraft, makes use of a fall of 10 meters in the river.

Melkefoss

Latitude
69.40513° or 69° 24′ 19″ north
Longitude
29.78771° or 29° 47′ 16″ east
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Open location code
9GXFCQ4Q+33
Geo­Names ID
13060428
Wiki­data ID
Q101119602
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Kven Finnish to Skolt Sami—“Melkefoss” goes by many names.
  • Kven Finnish: “Maitokoski”
  • Northern Sami: “Máiddik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melkefoss”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melkefoss”
  • Norwegian: “Melkefoss”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mââjdõk”

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