File:VARDØ VARDØHUS Festning Fortress 1737 NORWAY Vei inngang skilt trestolpe veiviser JAN MAYEN 790 nautiske mil Steilneset Wooden signpost to the island of Jan Mayen 790 nautical miles away 2023-07-28 IMG 9225.jpg

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English: Photo taken at the Vardøhus Fortress on the outskirts of Vardø town in Finnmark, Norway:
  • Weather-beaten wooden direction sign on a post, with "Jan Mayen 790 nautical miles" engraved, located by the coastal fortress. Jan Mayen is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population.
  • Vardøhus Fortress (Norwegian: Vardøhus festning) is located in the town of Vardø in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway, on the island of Vardøya on the Barents Sea near the Russian border. The northernmost fortress in the world was originally built around 1307 as a defense against raids from people further east and to secure Norwegian dominion of Finnmark and the northern territories. The current Vardøhus Fortress was constructed between 1734 and 1738 and remains largely intact in its original form to this day. Covering an area of 25 acres, the defense facility is designed as an octagonal star with low stone-clad earth ramparts. Inside the fortification walls, there are nine distinctive buildings.

Norsk bokmål: Foto tatt på Vardøhus festning i utkanten av Vardø i Finnmark:
  • Værbitt retningsskilt (veiviser) i tre med inngravert «Jan Mayen 790 n.mil» (nautiske mil) på en stolpe langs Festningsgata i leirområdet. Jan Mayen ligger isolert nordvest i Norskehavet.
  • Vardøhus festning på Vestøy-delen av Vardøya i Øst-Finnmark er Norges østligste og verdens nordligste festning. Den stod ferdig omkring 1307 som forsvar mot plyndringstokter fra folkene lenger øst og for å markere herredømme over Finnmark og nordområdene. Dagens festning ble bygd mellom 1734 og 1738. Det 25 mål store forsvarsanlegget er formet som en åttekantet stjerne med lave, steinkledde jordvoller. Innenfor murene er det ni særpregede bygninger.
  • Se lokalhistoriewiki.no: Vardøhus festning (kulturminneløype) og Riksantikvarens fredning av Vardøhus med omgivelser
  • Sjekk også bilder, kart og grundig beskrivelse i Hans-Henrik Egede-Nissens Verneplan Vardøhus festning utgitt av Forsvarsbygg i 2006 og G.I. Willochs Vardøhus festning 650 år : jubileumsskrift utgitt av Generalinspektøren for Kystvernartilleriet i 1960.
This is a photo of a monument in Norway, number:
109883
in the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage database.
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