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Hammerfest (town), the Glossary

or Hámmárfeasta is a town/city that is also the administrative centre of Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.^[1]

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1789 establishments in Norway
Populated places established in 1789
Port cities and towns in Norway

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.

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Anti-aircraft warfare

Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).

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Arctic convoys of World War II

The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia.

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Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Battle of Copenhagen (1807)

The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Napoleonic Wars.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Blockade

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

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Brig

A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged.

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Casemate

A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.

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Central European Summer Time

Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Chalfont St Peter

Chalfont St Peter is a large village and civil parish in southeastern Buckinghamshire, England.

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Christian VII of Denmark

Christian VII (29 January 1749 – 13 March 1808) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Counties of Norway

There are 15 counties in Norway. The 15 counties are administrative regions that are the first-level administrative divisions of Norway.

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Cruise ship

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.

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Decree

A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state, judge, royal figure, or other relevant authorities, according to certain procedures.

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Denmark–Norway

Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.

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Districts of Norway

The country of Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Finnmark

Finnmark (Finnmárku; Finmarkku; Finnmark; Финнмарк) is a county in the northern part of Norway.

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Finnmark Dagblad

Finnmark Dagblad is a Norwegian daily newspaper, published in Hammerfest, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Finnmark Dagblad are Hammerfest.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Flotilla

A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.

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Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838.

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Forsøl

Forsøl is a fishing village in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Forsøl are Hammerfest and Populated places of Arctic Norway.

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French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, sometimes called the Great French War, were a series of conflicts between the French and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815.

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Fuglenes Lighthouse

Fuglenes Lighthouse (Fuglenes fyr) was a coastal lighthouse located in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Fuglenes Lighthouse are Hammerfest.

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Garrison

A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German occupation of Norway

The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung.

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German U-boat bases in occupied Norway

German U-boat bases in occupied Norway operated between 1940 and 1945, when the Kriegsmarine (German navy), converted several naval bases in Norway into submarine bases.

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Globe Pequot Press

Globe Pequot is a book publisher and distributor of outdoor recreation and leisure titles that publishes 500 new titles.

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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated SNL) is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia.

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Gunboat War

The Gunboat War (Swedish: Kanonbåtskriget; 1807–1814) was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and Great Britain supported by Sweden during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hammerfest Church

Hammerfest Church (Hammerfest kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Hammerfest Church are Hammerfest.

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Hammerfest Municipality

Hammerfest (Hámmerfeasta) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Hammerfest Municipality are Hammerfest and Populated places of Arctic Norway.

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Hasvik (village)

or is a village in Hasvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Hasvik (village) are Populated places of Arctic Norway.

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HMS Snake (1797)

HMS Snake was a British Royal Navy ship launched in 1797 as the only member of her class of brig-sloops.

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Honningsvåg

is the northernmost city/town in mainland Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Honningsvåg are cities and towns in Norway and port cities and towns in Norway.

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Kjøpstad

A kjøpstad (historically: kjøbstad, kjöbstad, or kaupstad) is an old Scandinavian term for a "market town" that was used in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway for several hundred years. Hammerfest (town) and kjøpstad are cities and towns in Norway.

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Kunnskapsforlaget

Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian publishing company based in Oslo.

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Kvaløya, Finnmark

or is a large island in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Kvaløya, Finnmark are Hammerfest.

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Kvalsund Municipality

Kvalsund (Fálesnuorri and Valasnuora) is a former municipality in Finnmark county in Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Kvalsund Municipality are Hammerfest.

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Kven people

Kvens (kveeni; kvener; kväner; kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway.

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Land mine

A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.

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Liberation of Finnmark

The Liberation of Finnmark was an Allied military operation lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, from Germany.

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List of municipalities of Norway

Municipalities in Norway are the basic unit of local government.

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List of northernmost settlements

The most northern settlements on Earth are communities close to the North Pole, ranging from about 70° N to about 89° N. This is a list showing all of the northernmost settlements on Earth, which are all south of latitude 90° N. There are no permanent civilian settlements north of 79° N, the furthest north (78.55° N) being Ny-Ålesund, a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard.

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List of towns and cities in Norway

This is a list of towns and cities in Norway. Hammerfest (town) and list of towns and cities in Norway are cities and towns in Norway.

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Market town

A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.

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Måsøy Municipality

Måsøy (Muosát; Moseija) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Måsøy Municipality are Populated places of Arctic Norway.

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Melkøya

or is an island in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Melkøya are Hammerfest.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Midnight sun

Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Museum of Reconstruction

The Museum of Reconstruction for Finnmark and North Troms (Gjenreisningsmuseet for Finnmark og Nord-Troms) is a museum in the town of Hammerfest, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and museum of Reconstruction are Hammerfest.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945

Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945 is a Norwegian encyclopaedia covering the Second World War.

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Northern Europe

The northern region of Europe has several definitions.

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Northern Norway

Northern Norway (Nord-Norge,, Nord-Noreg; Davvi-Norga) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegian campaign

The Norwegian campaign (8 April 10 June 1940) involved the attempt by Allied forces to defend northern Norway coupled with the resistance of the Norwegian military to the country's invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive

The Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive was a major military offensive during World War II, mounted by the Red Army against the Wehrmacht in 1944 in the Petsamo region, ceded to the Soviet Union by Finland in accordance with the Moscow Armistice, and Norway.

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Polar night

Polar night is a phenomenon in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth where night lasts for more than 24 hours.

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Pomor trade

The Pomor trade (Pomorhandel, russehandel; Поморская торговля) was carried out between the Pomors of Northwest Russia and the people along the coast of Northern Norway, as far south as Bodø.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Regions of Norway

Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Rypefjord

Rypefjord is a village in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Rypefjord are Hammerfest and Populated places of Arctic Norway.

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Sámi peoples

The Sámi (also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

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Sørøysund Municipality

Sørøysund is a former municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Sørøysund Municipality are Hammerfest.

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Seaplane

A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Snøhvit

Snøhvit (Snow White) is the name of a natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, situated northwest of Hammerfest, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Snøhvit are Hammerfest.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Soviet Air Forces

The Soviet Air Forces (r, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as the "Red Air Force", were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II.

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Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to SSB) is the Norwegian statistics bureau.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Street light

A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.

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Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

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Town

A town is a type of a human settlement.

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Trondheim

Trondheim (Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Trondheim are cities and towns in Norway and port cities and towns in Norway.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Utqiagvik, Alaska

Utqiagvik (Utqiaġvik), formerly known as Barrow, is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Vadsø (town)

(Norwegian), (Northern Sami;, or is a town in Vadsø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of both Vadsø Municipality and Finnmark county, and is the largest town in East Finnmark. The town is located on the southern shore of the Varanger Peninsula, along the Varanger Fjord. Hammerfest (town) and Vadsø (town) are cities and towns in Norway and port cities and towns in Norway.

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Vardø (town)

(Norwegian),, or is a town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest (town) and Vardø (town) are 1789 establishments in Norway, cities and towns in Norway, Populated places of Arctic Norway and port cities and towns in Norway.

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Wilhelm II

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerfest_(town)

Also known as Hammerfest, Hammersfest, History of Hammerfest (town), The weather in Hammerfest.

, Land mine, Liberation of Finnmark, List of municipalities of Norway, List of northernmost settlements, List of towns and cities in Norway, Market town, Måsøy Municipality, Melkøya, Methodism, Midnight sun, Militia, Museum of Reconstruction, Napoleonic Wars, Natural gas, Nazi Germany, Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945, Northern Europe, Northern Norway, Norway, Norwegian campaign, Operation Barbarossa, Paris, Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive, Polar night, Pomor trade, Population density, Regions of Norway, Rowman & Littlefield, Royal Navy, Rypefjord, Sámi peoples, Sørøysund Municipality, Seaplane, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Snøhvit, Sovereign state, Soviet Air Forces, Statistics Norway, Stone Age, Street light, Subarctic climate, Telegraphy, Town, Trondheim, Tundra, Utqiagvik, Alaska, Vadsø (town), Vardø (town), Wilhelm II, World War II, Yr.no, 6-pounder gun.

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See also

1789 establishments in Norway

Populated places established in 1789

Port cities and towns in Norway

References