, , or is a village in

Kvænangen Municipality Kvænangen (; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Burfjord. Other notable villages in the municipality include Alteide ...

Troms Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...

county,

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. It lies at the head of the

Badderfjord The or is a small fjord that branches off of the main Kvænangen fjord in Kvænangen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The fjord is long and wide and it extends from its mouth between Steinnes and Nordnes eastward to the head of the fj ...

, about south of the municipal seat of

Burfjord , , or is a village in Kvænangen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is the administrative centre of the municipality, thus it is where the municipal offices are located and where the municipal council meets. The village has a po ...

. The

European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...

highway passes through the village. The basic statistical unit (''grunnkrets'') of Badderen, which also includes the hamlet of Undereidet, had a population of 183 in 2015.

History

As early as 1743 there were reports of

copper ore Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...

found in Kvænangen, but further investigations were not carried out until 1827 by the Quenangen Mining Association. One of the stakeholders in this company was the Englishman John Rice Crowe, who already ran the Alten Copper Works (later the Kåfjord Copper Works) in Alta together with Henry Dick Woodfall. Surveys of the ore deposits in Kvænangen continued for several years, and full mining in Kvænangen started in 1840, beginning with Kjækan. Several mines were established in Kvænangen; the largest were the Edwards mine and Cedar mine. The Alta plant, which the Kvænangen mines were part of, merged with the company Sulitjelma Aktiebolag in 1896. Then the old trading center of Badderen became the center for new mining operations in Kvænangen. An ore

quay A wharf ( or wharfs), quay ( , also ), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more Berth (mo ...

was built at Badderen in the early 1900s with a road to the mines. A telephone line was also set up. The director's residence at Badderen was dismantled in 1903 and rebuilt in

Sulitjelma , , or is a village in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sulitjelma is situated in a lush inland valley at an elevation of above mean sea level, above sea level. It is located on the shore of Langvatnet (Fauske), Langvatnet lake, ...

for the new director of the Sulitjelma Mines. This building was later used as the Sulitjelma Hotel.

References

External links

Badderen at FINN kartBadderen at Norgeskart
{{authority control Kvænangen Villages in Troms