Ekkerøy, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark, Norway

Ekkerøy is one of the oldest fishing villages on the Varanger peninsula in Finnmark county in north east Norway. The village lies along the European route E75 about 9 miles east of the town of Vadsø. Ekkerøy is one of very few places in Finnmark that was not burnt and destroyed under Operation Nordlicht, a German operation during the Lapland War at the end of World War 2.

Date: 12th April 2010

Location: view from route E75 looking towards Ekkerøy, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark, Norway