Oksfjorden (Finnmark)

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Oksfjorden is a fjord in Lebesby Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It lies on the Nordkinn Peninsula, just southwest of Cape Nordkinn. The innermost part of the fjord is the uninhabited fishing village Oksevåg. The fjord is about 12 kilometers long and up to 6 kilometers wide. It is called Oksfjorden in Norwegian ( literally “Axe fjord”) and Vuoksavuotna in Northern Sami. The coordinates are about 70.9873°N, 27.5341°E (70°59′14″N, 27°32′03″E). A map shows the fjord’s location in Finnmark. This article is a stub and could have more details added.