Fishing village Schjerrefjordur on the Barents Sea in the Norwegian Arctic

Kjørefjord is a small fjord in the municipality of Lebesby in Tromsø and Finnmark counties of Norway. It is also the village of the same name in the northwest of the Nordkin Peninsula at the end of the fjord. The village is the administrative center of Lebesby. The small fjord merges into the larger Laakfjord and then directly leads to the Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean. Since the 16th century, Kjørefjord has been a fishing village and trading center on the coast of the Barents Sea on the northern edge of Norway, or working for merchants in Bergen in the south, but in the Middle Ages it was mainly barter trade, in addition to Norwegians, Russians and Danes participated. Like many other places in Finnmark, the original buildings here were burned down by the invading German army in the fall of 1944 as a scorched earth strategy, when the entire population of about 700 people was evacuated and scattered across the country. From October 23, 1944 to April 26, 1945, after the Soviet Red Army defeated the German army at the cost of 2,900 lives and liberated Finnmark County, Norway, most of the original residents of Kjøllefjord returned and began post-war reconstruction. The Soviet Red Army evacuated all Norwegian territory on September 25, 1945. Today, this 0.45 square kilometer village has a population of 945 in 2017, making it the largest village in the city and one of the largest fishing villages in Finnmark County, and also one of the ports of call for the Arctic route of the Hyde-Rode Cruise. This group of photos was taken around 6 pm on March 19, 2018, and the brightness of the photos is slightly higher than what is actually seen. #Overseas Travel #Norway Travel #Norway Tourism #I'm so attached to Norway #Arctic Trip #Arctic Circle #Barents Sea #Arctic Ocean #Cruise #Fishing Village #Cabin #Fishing Port #Kjøllefjord #norway #arctic #kjøllefjord