Hasvik
| Hasvik kommune | |||
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| Coordinates: 70°35′36″N 22°25′38″E / 70.59333°N 22.42722°ECoordinates: 70°35′36″N 22°25′38″E / 70.59333°N 22.42722°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Finnmark | ||
| Administrative centre | Breivikbotn | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor (2003) | Geir Adelsten Iversen (Sp) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 556 km2 (215 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 535 km2 (207 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 192 in Norway | ||
| Population (2008) | |||
| • Total | 998 | ||
| • Rank | 403 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 2/km2 (5/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | -18.9 % | ||
| Demonym | Hasvikværing[1] | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-2015 | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Website | www.hasvik.kommune.no | ||
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Hasvik is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Breivikbotn. Hasvik was separated from the municipality of Loppa on 1 January 1858.
Hasvik is situated on the western side of Norway's fourth largest island (other than Svalbard) Sørøya. Most people are to be found in a string of settlements along the western coast: Breivikbotn and Hasvik being the main ones.
Hasvik Airport is served with regular connections to Tromsø and Hammerfest, and there is a two-hour ferry crossing to Øksfjord, providing access by car.
The population is in steady decline, due to the problems within the fishing industry.
In the sea off of the village of Sørvær lies the stranded Soviet cruiser Murmansk, which ran aground on Christmas Eve in 1994 after her towlines snapped off North Cape. She was on her way to India to be scrapped at the time. Several attempts have been made to pull her free, but without success. She has now become something of a tourist attraction. However, she is currently being scrapped, the work is planned to be finished by 2012.
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[edit] General information
[edit] Name
The Norse form of the name was probably Hásvík. The first element is then the genitive case of the mountain name Hár (now Håen) and the last element is vík f 'cove, wick'. The actual mountain is compared in form with an old oarlock (Norse hár m).
[edit] Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 13 July 1984. The arms show a white seagull on a blue background, which was chosen by the municipality as a symbol for the local fishing and fish processing industry, that attracts many seagulls.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskrivning_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn/.
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/h/hasvik.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
- ^ "Kommunevåpen". Flags of the World. 30 April 2002. http://fotw.us/flags/no-20-15.html. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
[edit] External links
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