Magerøya

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Nordkapptunnel entrance, and...	...SOS post inside
Magerøya: View from European route E 69

Magerøya is an 440 km² island in the extreme north of Norway, in the community of Nordkapp. The island features a bleak, barren landscape devoid of any trees, with steep cliff faces on the coast and dramatic mountainscapes in the interior.

Magerøya's main claim to fame is the North Cape, a steep cliff cape on the northern coast that is a major tourist attraction. To accommodate the large amounts of tourists visiting the island, a subsea tunnel was built from 1993 to 1999. The North Cape Tunnel, which is 6.87 km long and reaches a depth of 212 meters below sea level, was for a time one of the longest and of the deepest subsea tunnels in the world. Fog or ice may occur inside the tunnel, even in summer.

Norway's Hurtigruten ferry service touches Magerøya at Honningsvåg; the waters around the island remain ice-free year round due to the warm North Atlantic drift.

 

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