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A municipality called Hammerfest by og landdistrikt (Hammerfest town and district) was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law), which included the town of Hammerfest and the vast rural district surrounding it. The law at that time required that all towns should be separated from their rural districts, but because of low ...
Hammerfest ⓘ or Hámmárfeasta is a town/city [5] that is also the administrative centre of Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on the northwestern coast of the island of Kvaløya , just north of the village of Rypefjord and southwest of the village of Forsøl .
DanseFestival Barents, [135] Hammerfest, Norway 70°39′45″N 23°41′00″E / 70.66250°N 23.68333°E / 70.66250; 23.68333 ( DanseFestival Outdoor music festival
For all its remoteness, Hammerfest has a long history as a trading port, and Polar Bear Club sets out to commemorate this. In the museum's single room are a variety of mementos of the early life of Hammerfest, including a profusion of stuffed animals, early Arctic hunting, traveling and camping equipment, and a gallery of photographs, paintings ...
The Museum of Reconstruction for Finnmark and North Troms (Norwegian: Gjenreisningsmuseet for Finnmark og Nord-Troms) is a museum in the town of Hammerfest, Norway. As was much of Northern Norway, the entire town of Hammerfest was razed to the ground by the retreating Nazi German military forces at the end of World War II. The museum ...
Kvalsund or Ráhkkerávju (Northern Sami) [3] is a village in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.It was formerly the administrative centre of the old Kvalsund Municipality which existed until 2020 when it merged with Hammerfest Municipality.
Rypefjord is a village in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located just south of the town of Hammerfest on the western side of the large island of Kvaløya. Rypefjord was the main population centre of the former municipality of Sørøysund, which existed from 1852 until its dissolution in 1992.
Hammerfestingen is a local Norwegian newspaper in Finnmark county.. The paper is published weekly in Hammerfest Municipality, and it first appeared on December 22, 2011. [1] [2] Caroline Greiner started the paper and was the editor until 2017 when Bjørn Egil Jakobsen was appointed editor. [3]