Breivikbotn is the

administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...

Hasvik Municipality Hasvik (; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Breivikbotn. Other villages in the municipality include Breivik, Finn ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

county,

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. It is an old trading post and

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that is located on the western end of the island of

Sørøya or is Norway's fourth largest island in terms of area and the largest in Finnmark county. The island is divided between Hasvik Municipality and Hammerfest Municipality. It is often claimed to be "one of the most beautiful" of the islands in ...

, looking out across the

Lopphavet Lopphavet is a stretch of open sea along the border of Troms and Finnmark counties in Norway. It has a width of about , and it stretches between the large island of Sørøya in Finnmark and the islands of Arnøya and Nord-Fugløya in Troms. The ...

Sea. The village lies along Norwegian County Road 822 in the central part of the municipality. The village of

Hasvik Hasvik may refer to: Places * Hasvik Municipality, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway * Hasvik (village), a village in Hasvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway * Hasvik Church, a church in Hasvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway ...

lies about to the south, the former village of Dønnesfjord lies about to the northeast, and the village of Sørvær lies about to the west. The village has a population (2023) of 308 and a

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of . Breivikbotn Chapel is located in this village as well as much of the commercial activity in the municipality.

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Villages in Finnmark Populated places of Arctic Norway Hasvik {{Finnmark-geo-stub