Nesseby

Nesseby Unjarga / municipality is located furthest on Varangerhalvøya peninsula, by the Varangerfjord. Surface area of 1.436,1 km2 with approximately 850 inhabitants. Crossroads for Eastern Finnmark. Nesseby comprises the inner stretch of the Varangerfjord. A coastal Saami borough with a thriving culture that has survived the changing times.

MORTENSNES

Mortensnes cultural preservation area, a walk through 11,000 years in time. Neeseby scenery abounds in cultural sites, settlement sites, grave mounds, hunting places, sacrificial sites etc. One of the most renowned areas is Mortensnes, with several hundred ancient housing sites and burial mounds plus sacrificial circles, sacrificial stones sites that depict an uninterrupted settlement through 11,000 years. The cultural path leads the way through history.

VARANGERHALVØYA NATIONAL PARK

The Park is approximately 1.804 km2. Established in in 2006 in the municipalities of Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø and Vardø.

The area gave the name to the Varangian glaciation episode. A large part of this peninsula, including the town Vardø located on an island just east of the mainland, has an arctic tundra climate. However, on the south coast, including the town Vadsø, there is sufficient summer heat for birch trees to grow.

The landscape is formed before the Ice Age, when the entire country was covered by ice. The ice have marked the landscape whith a quite unique landscape forms. The flora and fauna have species from the Arctic and East Sibir (Russia).

Sami culture and tradition has left behind a wealth of traces and stories linked to the region. In old Sami culture, plants, animals and places all possessed souls and had considerable significance for day-to-day life.

OUTDOORS

Great possibilities for outdoor pursuits in a contrasting landscape containing large cloudberry marshes.

BIRD WATCHING

Peat marshes with peat stacks contained in eternal ice at Varangerbotn. Shallow water area with extraordinarily diverse bird life.

FISHING

You can fish in the sea from the shore. Deep waters close to land, all species of salt water fish.