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Lights must be on all the time, seatbelts are mandatory for passengers in the front and drivers are forbidden to speak on a mobile phone while driving. The general speed limits are: in inhabited areas 50 km/h (31 mph) outside of inhabited areas 90 km/h (56 mph) on expressways 110 km/h (68 mph) on motorways 130 km/h (81 mph)
The building of the Kilpisjärvi school burned down on 3 May 2015. It had been occupied by travellers at the time. The fire started from a recreational vehicle parked next to the building. [2] The fire destroyed thousands of euros worth of euro banknotes that had been stored at the school. The money had been collected as donations to fund a ...
A travel itinerary is a schedule of events relating to planned travel, generally including destinations to be visited at specified times and means of transportation to move between those destinations.
European route E6 (Norwegian: Europavei 6, Swedish: Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden.It is 3,056 km (1,899 mi) long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to the Arctic Circle and Nordkapp. [1]
Tromsø, [b] officially the Tromsø Municipality, [c] is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Other notable settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjerkaker, Ersfjordbotn, Jøvika, Kaldfjord, Kjosen, Kroken, Kvaløysletta, Lakselvbukt, Melvika, Movik, Oldervik, Sandneshamn, Sjursnes, Sommarøy, and Tromsdalen.
Over time the municipality grew much larger in area by merging with neighboring areas (especially during the 1960s). Arctic hunting, from Novaya Zemlya to Canada , started up around 1820. By 1850, Tromsø was the major centre of Arctic hunting, overtaking the former centre of Hammerfest , and the city was trading from Arkhangelsk to Bordeaux .
The Lavangsdalen bus accident (Norwegian: Lavangsdalen-ulykken) was a bus crash in northern Norway on 7 January 2011. On the European route E8, a car headed north towards Tromsø was about to pass a bus headed south towards Nordkjosbotn, but entered the opposing lane and crashed into the bus. The bus rotated into a horizontal position, and ...
This lasted until 1956, when Bardufoss Airport opened and passengers from Tromsø were transported there by bus (around 140 km/85 mi). [5] In 1958 there were 6,825 Tromsø-bound passengers. [6] The Civil Airport Administration stated in 1950 that Tromsø, as Northern Norway's largest town, should have an airfield.