Varanger Fjord
Water type: Bay
Connection to the ocean: Barents Sea -> Arctic ocean
Continent:
Europe
Climate:
Subpolar
Bays
Scombriformes - Mackerels
Gadiformes - Cods
Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks
Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks
Osmeriformes - Smelts
Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes
Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks
Rajiformes - Skates and rays
Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts
Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes
Clupeiformes - Herrings
Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes
The Varangerfjord (English: Varanger Fjord) is the easternmost fjord in Norway and on north of Finland. The fjord is located in Finnmark county between the Varanger Peninsula and the mainland of Norway. The fjord flows through the municipalities of Vardø, Vadsø, Nesseby, and Sør-Varanger.
The fjord is approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) long, emptying into the Barents Sea.
In a strict sense, it is a false fjord, since it does not have the hallmarks of a fjord carved by glaciers.
Its mouth is about 70 kilometres (43 mi) wide, located between the town of Vardø in the northwest and the village of Grense Jakobselv in the southeast. The fjord stretches westwards inland past the town of Vadsø to the village of Varangerbotn in Nesseby Municipality.