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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] ), Várggátcode: sme promoted to code: se  (Northern Sami), or Vuorea (Kven) is a town and the administrative centre...
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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 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 (Norwegian pronunciation: [vaɖːø] ; Finnish: Vuoreija; Kven: Vuorea; Northern Sami: Várggát) is a municipality in Finnmark county in the extreme...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Population: 995 Eckerö Population: 942 Föglö Population: 509 Geta Population: 509 Vårdö Population: 471 Brändö Population: 436 Lumparland Population: 366 Kumlinge...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    wagons that incorporated living spaces on the inside. These they called "vardos" and were often brightly and colorfully decorated on the inside and outside...
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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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    which is a series of main roads in Europe. The E 75 starts at the town of Vardø in Norway by the Barents Sea, and it runs south through Finland, Poland...
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  • The witch trials of Vardø were held in Vardø in Finnmark in Northern Norway in the winter of 1662–1663 and were one of the biggest in Scandinavia. Thirty...
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    "where East meets West," in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø Municipality, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther...
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