Hammerfest

Hammerfest is a municipality in Finn mark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Hammerfest. The 848 square kilometer municipality is the one hundred and thirtieth biggest by place out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Hammerfest is the 110 maximum populous municipalities in Norway with a populace of 10,533. The municipality's populace density is 12.9 inhabitants in line with rectangular kilometer and its population has extended by using 12% over the last decade. Many grave sites relationship again to the Stone Age may be determined here.

This vicinity turned into a crucial fishing and Arctic looking settlement for a long term before it become given marketplace town rights through royal decree of Christian VII of Denmark Norway in 1789. During the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark Norway changed into attacked by Great Britain and compelled into the war at the facet of Napoleon and France. As one of the predominant centers of commerce and transportation in western Finn mark, Hammerfest became a herbal target of the Royal Navy's blocking warships. Thus, at the request of neighborhood merchants, the metropolis obtained 46 pound cannon from the imperative armory in Trondheim.