Øksfjord (Sámi: Ákšovuotna, Kvenian: Aksuvuono) is a place in Northern Norway. It has about 500 inhabitants and is the center of the municipality of Loppa in the province of Troms og Finnmark.
By plane
The nearest airport is Alta (ALF IATA), 120 km (75 mi)
distance.
By boat
Hurtigruten calls at this port.
High
speed ferries 5 days a week from Hammerfest : Snelandia
By bus
Bus from Alta six days a week. Search finnmark.no for bus connections.
The main sources of income for the inhabitants are fishing and the fish processing industry.
The town is located on the eastern shore of the 25 km long Øksfjord,
not far south of its entrance, and with its small ferry port Vassdalen
is the pier of the traditional Hurtigruten mail line. There are also
several ferries from Øksfjord to neighboring areas, such as Hasvik
Municipality (with Hasvik Airport) on the island of Sørøya.
The
provincial road Fv882, built between 1905 and 1910, from Øksfjord to
Øksfjordbotn at the southern end of the fjord and on to European Route
6, about 40 kilometers away, connects the town with the Norwegian road
network. The Øksfjord tunnel between Storvik and Skarbergodden, which
was 4252 meters long and opened in 1988, replaced the old road on the
north bank of the Øksfjord, which was at risk of falling rocks.
The
Øksfjordjøkelen glacier is about 10 kilometers south-west of the
town. It has an area of about 43 km² and calves directly into the
Jøkelfjord in Troms province. The church was built in 1954.
sons and daughters of the town
Hans E. Kinck (1865–1926),
Norwegian writer