Skibotn
Skibotn is a village in Troms. It used to be an important meeting place between Norwegians, Sámi and Kven people, with a yearly market. Skibotn is on the shore in the innermost part of the fjord Lyngen, surrounded by large mountains including Nallagais, Imagais, Steindalsbreen, Balggesvarr and Storfjellet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 540 residents
- Description: settlement in Storfjord Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Ivgobahta”, “Skibotn - Ivgobahta - Yykeänperä”, “Skibotten”, and “Yykeänperä”
Skibotn
- Categories: urban area in Norway, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Storfjord, Troms, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
69.3908° or 69° 23′ 27″ northLongitude
20.2678° or 20° 16′ 4″ eastPopulation
540Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO SKBOpen location code
9GX297R9+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 181883716OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Skibotn” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Skibotn”
- Cebuano: “Ivgobahta”
- Chinese: “希博滕”
- Danish: “Skibotn”
- Dutch: “Skibotn”
- Finnish: “Markkina”
- Finnish: “Skibotn”
- Finnish: “Yykeänperä”
- French: “Ivgobahta”
- French: “Skibotn”
- Galician: “Skibotn”
- German: “Skibotn”
- Irish: “Skibotn”
- Japanese: “シーボットン”
- Japanese: “スキボットン”
- Korean: “시보튼”
- Kven Finnish: “Yykeänperä”
- Malay: “Skibotn”
- Northern Sami: “Ivgobahta”
- Northern Sami: “Ivgubahta”
- Northern Sami: “Ivguvuonbahta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skibotn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ivgobahta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ivgubahta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Markkina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skibotn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yykeänperä”
- Norwegian: “Skibotn”
- Portuguese: “Skibotn”
- Romanian: “Skibotn”
- Russian: “Шиботн”
- Slovenian: “Skibotn”
- Spanish: “Skibotn”
- Swedish: “Skibotn”
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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 “Skibotn”. Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.