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    Sør-Varanger (Northern Sami: Máttá-Várjjat; Kven: Etelä-Varenki; Russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер, romanized: Syor-Varánger) is a municipality in Finnmark county...
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    Pederson (Ap) The municipality of Vadsø forms the southern coast of the Varanger Peninsula. The treeline lies at 100 m - 200 m ASL, highest at sheltered areas...
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    valleys, and in the east is the lowland area in the Pasvik valley in Sør-Varanger Municipality, where the pine and Siberian spruce forest is considered part...
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    camps held suspected members of the Persfjord Group—partisans on the Varanger Peninsula. In 1943 eleven prisoners were bludgeoned to death. Storskog Tofte...
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    Vardø (town) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    island of Vardøya in the Barents Sea, just off the coast of the large Varanger Peninsula. The 1.2-square-kilometre (300-acre) town has a population (2023)...
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    Vardø Municipality (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    mountain Domen lies on the shore of the Varanger Peninsula. South of it lies the small Kibergsneset peninsula, where the village of Kiberg is. The town...
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    and the Vake mini-expedition race (held at Norway's most northern Varanger peninsula). Snowkiting differs from other alpine sports in that it is possible...
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  • Russian: Общий район) was a Russo-Norwegian condominium comprising Sør-Varanger Municipality and the Pechengsky District from 1684 until 1826. Anglo-Egyptian...
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  • Norwegian campaign order of battle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Battalion (based in Bardufoss) Alta Battalion (based at Altagård in Alta) Varanger Battalion (based in Kirkenes, with training grounds at Nyborgmoen near...
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    Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line (category Sør-Varanger)
    5-kilometer (5.3 mi) long railway line between Kirkenes and Bjørnevatn in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Norway. Owned by the private mining company Northern Iron...
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