Kvænangen (fjord)

Kvænangenfjord

Kvænangenfjord

Kvænangen or Kvænangenfjord ( Nordsamische Návuonna language ) is a fjord in the communities Kvænangen and Skjervøy in Troms in Norway. The fjord is 117 km long. He has his mouth between Hylla in the west and in the east Ramnes. He performs mainly in a southerly direction and ends in Kvænangsbotn.

The outer part of the fjord lies to the east of the islands Arnoya and Laukøya in Skjervøy. South of Laukøya is Skjervøya and between these and store Haukøya further east branches of the large fjord arm Reisafjord from the south-west and extends to Storslett. The island Spildra is located in the fjord, where it begins to cut into the mainland, but Rødøya lies further to the northwest. In the vicinity of these islands many fjords branching off to the east. Farthest north is the Olderfjord, followed by the pure fjord Jøkelfjord, which is the longest of this page fjords and reaches almost to the glacier Øksfjordjøkelen, and at the end of the Lille Altafjorden ( German Small Altafjorden ) and the Burfjord.

To the south is the island of Spildra Skorpa and on the west side of the fjord between these two islands lies the roadless hamlet Valanhamn. Southeast of Skorpa is the island Nøklan and south of the Badderfjord Nøklan branches off to the east. In the area north of the Badderfjords there are some settlements on the coast of this fjord. But in this area there are many hamlets, of which Undereidet and Sekkemo are the largest on Badderfjord. Sørstraumen located on the west side of the fjord. There, the E6 crosses the fjord with the 440 meter long bridge Sørstraumen bru. In Sørstraumen the island Aroyan is in the middle of the fjord and the hamlet Kjækan is on the east side. From here the narrow sound Lille trauma leads to the innermost part of the fjord, which is called Bosvik.

• Fjord in Norway
• Skjervøy
• Kvænangen (Municipality)
• Geography ( Troms )