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    Vårdö. Blomqvist lived her whole life on the Vårdö island of Simskäla. The word "vårdö" means "the guardian island". On the highest mountain of Vårdö...
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  • Norway Vardø Tunnel, an undersea road tunnel in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway Vårdö, an island municipality in Åland, Finland Vardo Rumessen...
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    Vardø (Norwegian; pronounced [vaɖːø] ), Várggát (Northern Sami), or Vuorea (Kven) is a town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark...
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    Vardø (Norwegian pronunciation: [vaɖːø] ; Finnish: Vuoreija; Kven: Vuorea; Northern Sami: Várggát) is a municipality in Finnmark county in the extreme...
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    Vardø Lighthouse (Norwegian: Vardø fyr) is a coastal lighthouse located on the island of Hornøya, just off the coast of the town of Vardø in Vardø Municipality...
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    A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by...
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    The Vardø Tunnel (Norwegian: Vardøtunnelen) is a subsea road tunnel in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The 2,890-metre (9,480 ft) long two-lane...
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    Vardø Radio is a coast radio station based in the town of Vardø in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Operated by Telenor Maritim Radio, it...
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  • Vardos is an all-female violin/accordion/double bass gypsy trio based in Melbourne, Australia, known for their energetic performance style. Formed by Alana...
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    Vardø Airport (Norwegian: Vardø Lufthavn; IATA: VAW, ICAO: ENSS) is a short take-off and landing airport located at Svartnes in Vardø Municipality in...
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    Vardø Church (Norwegian: Vardø kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the...
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    Vardø Chapel or Steglnes Chapel (Norwegian: Vardø kapell / Steglnes kapell) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county...
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  • The Vardø witch trials (Heksejakten i Vardø), which took place in Vardø in Finnmark in Northern Norway in 1621, was the first major witch trial of Northern...
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    Reinøya is an island in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located west of the island of Hornøya. Reinøya has a rich birdlife. The island...
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  • Vardø Framtid was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Vardø in Finnmark county. Vardø Framtid was started as a weekly newspaper in 1949 as the Communist...
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    dominates. A small strip of land along the coast east of North Cape (including Vardø) earlier had tundra/alpine/polar climate (ET), but this is mostly gone with...
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    1,017 Eckerö Population: 955 Föglö Population: 508 Geta Population: 513 Vårdö Population: 468 Brändö Population: 444 Lumparland Population: 370 Kumlinge...
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    Vardøhus Fortress (category Vardø)
    Vardøhus festning) is located in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Vardø on the island of Vardøya on the Barents...
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    Anni Blomqvist (category People from Vårdö)
    1990), née Karlsson, was a Finland-Swedish novelist. Blomqvist was born in Vårdö, Åland, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire, the first of ten children...
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  • Eckerö 961 (-0,5%) Föglö 575 (-0,2%) Geta 494 (+2,3%) Brändö 482 (-0,6%) Vårdö 442 (-2,9%) Lumparland 396 (-1,0%) Kumlinge 343 (-5,0%) Kökar 244 (-3,6%)...
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    The Coat of arms of Vardø is the official coat of arms for Vardø Municipality (including the town of Vardø) in Finnmark county, Norway. The arms have remained...
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    A Romanichal vardo pictured at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in 2007, England...
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    coinciding with the county of Finnmark. The easternmost town in Norway, Vardø, lies at 30°51′ E, which is so far east, so as to be east even of the central...
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  • Vardo Rumessen (8 August 1942 – 24 August 2015) was an Estonian pianist, musicologist and politician for the Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica. He is...
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  • of the First Order and that Project Resurrection had been moved to Vardos. On Vardos, Iden and Shriv investigate, leaving Zay on the Corvus, and are captured...
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  • Kumlinge and Vårdö as well as Fasta Åland. From the ferry anchorage in the southwest, a cable ferry goes to the neighboring village of Björkö (Vårdö...
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    Jomala Kumlinge Kökar Lemland Lumparland Mariehamn Saltvik Sottunga Sund Vårdö Hjalmar von Bonsdorff 1918 William Isaksson 1918–1922 Lars Wilhelm Fagerlund...
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  • on the island of Vårdö, Åland off Finland in order to intercept important despatches from the tsar which were being sent via Vårdö to Bomarsund. The...
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    "where East meets West" in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø Municipality, Norway's easternmost municipality, is farther east than Saint...
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    1009-1795m. Voruta, 2005. Zinkevičius, Zigmas (30 November 1999). "Lietuvos vardo kilmė". Voruta (in Lithuanian). 3 (669). ISSN 1392-0677. Archived from the...
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