Stokmarknes

Stokmarknes? / I is a small town on the island of Vesterålen in northern Norway. It is the capital of the municipality Hadsel, involving the island and shares some of the surrounding islands of the same name.

Key structural features are the hospital that serves a large area of ​​Vesterålen, and the two high bridges over which the road Fv82 leads first to the island Langøya for about five kilometers away from the airport Stokmarknes, Skagen and then in their further course on the town Sortland, another bridge and the road Fv85 the European Route 10 is reached.

Tourist attraction is the Hurtigruten house, next to a hotel in the style of a passenger ship is also home to the Hurtigruten museum with the decommissioned ship MS Finnmarken. Stokmarknes is considered the birthplace of the Hurtigruten, since there 1881 Richard With Vesterålen founded the steamship company. Accordingly, it is still one of the stations of the harbor line route. The schedule allows, on a day with the ship the route to Svolvær, the capital of Lofoten, and again to overcome back while en route to visit the well-known by its narrow Trollfjord.

Once a year a marathon takes place around the island, aptly has a circumference of 42 km. Hiking on the mountain Storheia or any of the other peaks allow a wide view of the neighboring islands of Vesterålen and Lofoten.

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  • Place in Norway
  • Port of Hurtigruten
  • Vesterålen
  • Location in Nordland
  • Hadsel
Municipalities of Norway Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen
750515
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