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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Øst-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1914
- Preceded by
- Tana Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Mehamn
- Mayor 2023
- Ragnhlid Vassvik ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,416.55 km (546.93 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,355.08 km (523.20 sq mi)
- Water
- 61.47 km (23.73 sq mi) 4.3%
- Rank
- # 65 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 672.3 m (2,206 ft)
- Density
- 0.8/km (2.1/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.6%
- Demonyms
- Gamviking, Gamvikværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Gamvik (Northern Sami: Gáŋgaviika) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mehamn. The other notable villages in Gamvik include Gamvik and Skjånes. Gamvik is known as one of the poorest and most undeveloped municipalities in Norway. The number of inhabitants rose at one moment in 2012, but in 2014, after the fish factory closed, the population declined dramatically with the departure of the eastern European fishermen.
Most people live in the village of Mehamn (about 500 inhabitants), which has an airport, Mehamn Airport, and is also a port of call of the hurtigruten coastal boats. The Slettnes Lighthouse near the village of Gamvik is the northernmost lighthouse on the mainland of Europe. Nervei and Langfjordbotn are two very small villages in southern Gamvik that are only accessible by boat. Finnkongkeila is an abandoned village along the Tanafjorden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gamvik Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.