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Harstad features relatively mild, wet winters and cool, dry summers. Harstad does not have the brutal winters most locations north of the Arctic Circle experience, and is sheltered from Atlantic gales by mountains in the west, and has the main part of the Scandinavian Mountains to the east.
Harstad (Norwegian, pronounced [hɐ̞̂ɻ.ʃt̠ɐ̞] ⓘ) or Hárstták (Northern Sami) [5] [6] is a city [1] in Harstad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is also the administrative centre of Harstad Municipality .
There are burial mounds from around 1020 located at Altevågen, a short distance north of the church. [ 2 ] Prior to the area becoming a part of the urban town of Harstad, the area near the church was a separate village which was the administrative centre of the large Trondenes Municipality which existed from 1838 until 1964, when it became ...
It is located on the northern edge of the town of Harstad. It is the main church for the Trondenes parish which is part of the Trondenes prosti ( deanery ) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland . The white, stone church was built in a long church style around the year 1435 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect .
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a pair of Pungsan dogs, a local breed, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. Kim and Putin were seen looking at the dogs, who ...
The horses — 19 stallions and five mares — are Orlov Trotters, a white-grey breed that is Kim's favorite. The North Korean leader's love for the horses is well documented.
Madeleine Gavin, like many readers, was haunted by the story of Hyeonseo Lee, a woman who fled North Korea with her family in the 1990s and documented their perilous journey in her bestselling ...
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