, , or is a village in
Nesseby Municipality
or (also unofficially ''Uuniemi'' in Kven language, Kven and Finnish language, Finnish) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the vi ...
in
Finnmark
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county,
Norway
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. The village lies on the southern shore of the inner part of the
Varangerfjorden, about southeast of the municipal centre of
Varangerbotn
or is the administrative centre of Nesseby Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It is located at the innermost part of the large Varangerfjorden. The village is located at the intersection of the European route E6 and European route E75 high ...
. The statistical area of Karlebotn, which also includes the peripheral parts of the village, as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of 93.
Archaeology
Excavation in the 2020s, have shown structure of
t least onedwelling
r part of a settlement,that seems to be from the later Stone Age.
the Karlebotn man'''Karlebotnmannen'' is a figure that has been "cut out of horn" from reindeer; it has been dated to around 2000 years before
common era
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; the figure was found in Karlebotn.
[https://www.sagat.no/nyheter/de-forste-menneskene-i-unj-rga-nesseby-for-11-000-ar-siden/19.40484. Sagat.no. Retrieved 2023-09-25]
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References
Nesseby
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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