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Geirangerfjord

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The Geirangerfjord is a fjord in Norway at Sunnmøre region, in the southern part of Møre og Romsdal county. Fjord is 15 km long branch of the Storfjord and in his ends lies small village named Geiranger. The Geirangerfjord is UNESCO World Heritage Site and it is one of the Norway most visited tourist locations. [...]

Barentsburg

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Barentsburg (Grumant in Russian) is a small Russian settlement in Svalbard (a group of islands north from Norway), with about of 700 inhabitants registered in September 2005. An interesting fact about this small town is that it is one of the most northerly settlement in Europe. Barentsburg has been inhabitated by Russians since 1932, and get [...]