Northern Norway
Finnmark
Sør-Varanger Municipality

Melkefoss hydroelectric station

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.
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  • Type: Industrial building
  • Description: hydroelectric power station in Sør-Varanger municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Melkefoss” and “Melkefoss power station”

Melkefoss hydroelectric station

Latitude
69.39934° or 69° 23′ 58″ north
Longitude
29.78722° or 29° 47′ 14″ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Inception
1978
Operator
Pasvik Kraft
Open location code
9GXF9QXP+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 344568865
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­industrial
Geo­Names ID
13060430
Wiki­data ID
Q1792497
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Swedish—“Melkefoss hydroelectric station” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Մելկեֆոս ՀԷԿ”
  • Armenian: “Մելկեֆոսի հիդրոէլեկտրակայան”
  • Finnish: “Melkefossin voimalaitos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melkefoss kraftverk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melkefoss”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melkefoss kraftverk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melkefoss”
  • Norwegian: “Melkefoss kraftverk”
  • Russian: “Мелькефосс ГЭС”
  • Swedish: “Melkefoss kraftverk”

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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 Wikipedia page “Melkefoss hydroelectric station”. Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 4.0.