The Altafjord (Norwegian: Altafjorden; Northern Sami: Álttávuonna; Kven: Alattionvuono) is a fjord in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The...

Operation Rösselsprung was set in motion when German forces concentrated in Altafjord from where they could sortie against the convoy. On 2 July, Admiral Hipper...

of Norway by Nazi Germany, a German naval base was established in the Altafjord to prevent convoys from the Western Allies from delivering supplies to...

Operation Rösselsprung was set in motion when German forces concentrated in Altafjord from where they could sortie against the convoy. On 2 July, the battleship...

the Germans sank 21 of the 34 isolated transports. Tirpitz returned to Altafjord via the Lofoten Islands. Following Rösselsprung, the Germans moved Tirpitz...

April 1944; full-speed trials were scheduled for the following day in Altafjord.[citation needed] On 12 November 1944, the ship was destroyed by Avro...

392 ft) runway numbered 11/29, which lies on the southern shore of the Altafjord. Alta Airport is owned and operated by the state-owned Avinor, and served...

summer of 1943. On 22 March, Scharnhorst, Tirpitz, and Lützow steamed to Altafjord for repairs to damage incurred in heavy storms. In early April, Scharnhorst...

provide distant cover. On 31 December, a German force, based along the Altafjord in northern Norway, under the command of Vice-Admiral Oskar Kummetz, on...

the Narvik-class destroyers Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 left Norway's Altafjord under the overall command of Konteradmiral Erich Bey. Scharnhorst set...

Fleet Air Arm airstrike against the German battleship Tirpitz. Moored in Altafjord in northern Norway, Tirpitz was the German navy's last surviving capital...

Rock Art - Alta Museum is situated in Hjemmeluft, a small bay in the Altafjord at a site of early settlement of Finnmark dating from around 11,000 years...

century. Baarsen was a Noaidi and a resident at Årøya, an island in the Altafjord just north of Alta. In May 1627, he was put on trial in Hasvaag accused...

commenced their transit from Trondheim and Bogen Bay to the forward base in Altafjord. The concentration was concluded on 4 July, with the heavy cruiser Lützow...

Kane Town 118 2.29 sq mi (5.9 km2) 7,041 feet (2,146 m) 1865 $46,250 Altafjord in Norway Amalga Cache Town 482 3.49 sq mi (9.0 km2) 4,439 feet (1,353 m)...

operation. Admiral Scheer was detached to join Tirpitz and Admiral Hipper in Altafjord. The British detected the German departure and ordered the convoy to scatter...

submarines in Operation Source badly damaged the battleship Tirpitz in Altafjord in Norway. Germany was unwilling to risk moving the ship to a German dockyard...

consisting of cruisers Hipper, Lützow , and six destroyers was assembled at Altafjord. In the event of a convoy report the fleet would sail as two battle groups;...

which reach into northwestern Finnmark, gradually becoming lower from Altafjord towards the North Cape, where they finally end at the Barents Sea. The...

Norwegian waters in December 1942. On 30 December 1942, Z31 left the Altafjord in northern Norway along with the heavy cruisers Admiral Hipper and Lützow...

fishing boat.) A British–Soviet attack on Tirpitz and Scharnhorst in Altafjord was being prepared when the ships had sailed for Svalbard. A Catalina...

Scharnhorst and the destroyers Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of the Altafjord in Operation Ostfront. The first and only surface sortie ordered by Grand...

launched an attack (Operation Tungsten) on the German battleship Tirpitz in Altafjord, Norway. This involved Barracudas in two waves, hitting the battleship...

in Norwegian waters. On 1 June 1943, she struck a mine and sank in the Altafjord with the loss of 115 lives. The mine had been laid on 6 May by the Soviet...

Sami), or Tuikkanen (Kven) is a small coastal village along the Lille Altafjord in the eastern part of Kvænangen Municipality in Troms county, Norway...

for which he was awarded the VC. On 22 September 1943 at Kåfjord on the Altafjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Cameron, commanding Midget Submarine X.6, and...

Operation Mascot. 31 July 1944: Tirpitz completed battle damage repair at Altafjord. 17 August 1944: Soviet aircraft sank two merchant ships near Kirkenes...

Swedish incursions. By building a fortress on the island of Årøya in the Altafjord, the rich salmon fisheries of the Alta River could also be protected....

from Furious and Victorious attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Altafjord, Norway, as part of Operation Tungsten. Tirpitz was hit 14 times and needed...

battleships and other ships as they moved from Trondheim, Norway, to Altafjord. Another Italian blockade runner, Himalaya, escorted by Kondor and three...