Sørfold

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Sørfold is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre is Straumen. The district's total land area is 1661.6 km² - of which 141.0 km² is covered with permanent ice and snow, and only 265.8 km² lies below the 150-m contour. The total length of coastline is 249 km. In 1987 only 3.2 km² was being farmed.

The small village of Mørsvikbotten is located in the north of the district. Mørsvikbotten has a school, a grocery shop, a small church, an aquaculture co-op and a few camping sites. Five kilometers north of Mørsvikbotten lies Lake Mørsvikvatnet. In this area, Mørsry, the German army had a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II housing mostly Russian POWs. They were building a railway, which was intended to be a link between Fauske and Narvik. Some ruins of the camp, the foundations of the railway line, a tunnel and roads can still be observed. A small, now empty, cemetery for fallen Russian soldiers is located close to the camp, 50 m on the left-hand side just before the single concrete bridge. Another lake is Andkjelvatnet.


Municipalities of Nordland Nordland coat of arms

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