Repvåg

Repvåg

Repvåg

Village in Northern Norway, Norway

Repvåg (Northern Sami: Reiffváhki) is a small fishing village in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located along the western shore of the Porsangerfjorden on the mainland Porsanger Peninsula.

View of Repvåg
Quick Facts Reiffváhki, Country ...

The fishing village now has about 14 residents, but historically, it was one of the main ports and trading places in Finnmark county, especially during the Pomor trade with Russia which existed until the 1917 revolution in Russia. Repvåg Chapel is located in the village, serving the people in the southern part of Nordkapp municipality.[2]

Slightly outside of Repvåg, there is a small area called Stranda, meaning "Beach" in English (formerly "Finneby" or "Sáamisiida" in Northern Sámi) that had a large coastal Sami population and is the last area in the municipality that is still characterized by some coastal Sami culture.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Repvåg" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  2. [2]
    Store norske leksikon. "Repvåg" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  3. [3]
    "Nordkapp-Repvåg". Travel-Finnmark. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 2018-06-07.


Stub icon

This article about a location in Finnmark is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Repvåg, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.