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  Car Rental Hammerfest, Auto Rental Cars in Hammerfest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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www.kasbah.com /car_rental/norway_hammerfest.htm   (228 words)

  
  Hammerfest, Norway
The town was bombarded by a British fleet in 1809, almost totally destroyed by fire in 1890 and razed to the ground by German forces in October 1944 after the compulsory evacuation of the population, only the cemetery chapel being left standing.
The people of Hammerfest, however, soon rebuilt their town on the narrow strip of land between the hill ridge of Salen and the sea.
Hammerfest is the base of Norway's Arctic fishing fleet; it has a large fish-processing industry and a fishery college.
www.planetware.com /norway/hammerfest-n-fnm-hamm.htm   (186 words)

  
 Cruise Norway - Hammerfest
Hammerfest, the northernmost town in the world, is both an arctic and multicultural destination.
Hammerfest has a long history of being an important hunting and fishing town in the arctic.
The fact that Hammerfest was involved, and actually attacked during the Napoleonic War in 1809, emphasizes the world powers' interest in the town at the time.
www.cruise-norway.no /CDA/ZonePg.aspx?Zone=45   (214 words)

  
 Hammerfest - Norway - visitnorway.com
Mo i Rana, Longyearbyen, Honningsvåg, Vardø, Vadsø, Mosjøen, Karasjok, Hammerfest, Brønnøysund, Berlevåg, Alta, Tromsø,
Hammerfest, the northernmost town in the world, the town of trade in Finnmark, the gate towards the Barents Sea, the town for hunters and trappers.
The museum of reconstruction for Finnmark and North-Troms was opened in Hammerfest the summer of 1998, and has a modern and exciting exhibition, which shows the life in Finnmark and North Troms before and after teh second world war.
www.visitnorway.com /templates/NTRarticle.aspx?id=41779   (685 words)

  
 Hammerfest : Introduction | Frommers.com
The Hammerfest area stretches from Måsøy, near the North Cape, to Loppa in the south.
Hammerfest is a major traffic hub, and in the summer there's a wide choice of boat and bus excursions.
Hammerfest is also an important communication center in the county of Finnmark, and this makes it an ideal starting point for coastal and other scenic excursions in the county.
www.frommers.com /destinations/hammerfest/3084010001.html   (320 words)

  
 Hammerfest, Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hammerfest lies 70º39'48" north and is one of the most northern towns in the world.
It has a population of about 10,000 people.
The building in the middle of the picture is Hammerfest Church.
www.fookes.com /gallery/norway01.htm   (46 words)

  
 Hammerfest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hammerfest is also a center of Sami culture.
The invention was brought to Hammerfest by two of the town's merchants who had seen it demonstrated at a fair in Paris.
In Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun(1999), Hammerfest housed an important GDI base that was defended by one of their potent Firestorm Generator.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hammerfest   (874 words)

  
 Hammerfest piumini, trapunte e piuma d'oca dal Trentino Alto Adige
Those familiar with the frozen north know that Hammerfest is the most northerly town in the world, situated near the North Cape, just 15° south of the North Pole, it is at the extreme limits of the inhabited world.
Hammerfest has tried to reflect this respect of nature by using one of the best materials nature can provide — goose down.
No artificial material or process has the ability to replicate the essential characteristics of goose down, which is why we still prefer to work with a material provided by mother nature.
www.hammerfest.it /en/indexen.htm   (228 words)

  
 Hammerfest, Norway hotel close to Repparfjord River - Quality Hotel, NO061
Hammerfest is ideally located close to the Hammerfest Airport.
This Hammerfest hotel is minutes from the Hammerfest Staller AS equestrian center and the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society museum.
Hammerfest is famous for being the northernmost town in the world.
www.choicehotels.com /ires/en-US/html/HotelInfo?hotel=NO061&sid=MY9dg.4qwmigun_.2   (313 words)

  
 Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in the Hammerfest airport
"June 2004 - I had just removed my appendix at the hospital in Hammerfest and was waiting for the plane home with my mom.
On the first floor there were hard "sofas" - really just chairs put together.
"July 2002 - Now, I dont really think anyone else would even CONCIDER sleeping over at the airport in small-town Hammerfest (I'm surprised they even HAD an airport) but my situation was kind of desperate since I was suddenly stuck in this town of 9000 inhabitants, knowing no-one.
www.sleepinginairports.net /europe/hammerfest.htm   (323 words)

  
 Hammerfest travel guide
Hammerfest travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
Hammerfest, on the route of the Hurtigruten ferries, claims to be the world's northernmost town - a claim which, if true, depends upon Honningsvåg being defined as a village.
Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at wikitravel.org.
www.world66.com /europe/norway/hammerfest   (139 words)

  
 Hammerfest - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Tourists are attracted by its uninterrupted daylight from May 17 to July 29.
Chartered c.1795, Hammerfest was heavily damaged by British naval bombardment in 1809, by fire in 1890, and by retreating German forces in 1944.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Hammerfest" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Hammerfe.html   (185 words)

  
 Hammerfest Turist - Hammerfest Church
To the west of the Hammerfest market square, in Kirkegata, is the Lutheran church (1961), a striking example of modern architecture, in that it for exemple does not have an altar piece but a large painted glass picture.
In the tent-shaped gable can be seen a large stained glass window (by Jardar Lunde, 1962), 8m/26ft square.
Close by is a little wooden chapel which survived the Second World War.
www.hammerfest-turist.no /index.php?page_id=45   (79 words)

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