Stauren or Syltefjordstauran is a mountain cliff in
Båtsfjord Municipality
Båtsfjord () 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 Båtsfjord (village), Båtsfjord (which is the only settlement rema ...
in
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,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. It is located along the northern coast of the
Syltefjorden, about northeast of the abandoned village of
Nordfjord
Nordfjord (—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway.
Geography
The region is located in the northern part of Vestland county in Western Norway. It centers on the Nordfjorden and it comprises Stad Muni ...
. The tall mountain cliff runs for a length of about along the shore. It is among the largest
bird cliff
Bird cliffs, or nesting cliffs, are steep cliffs with numerous small shelves which serve as nesting locations for bird colonies. Bird cliffs are found on islands in the North Atlantic and Arctic, such as the Faroe Islands, Iceland, the Svalbard a ...
s in Finnmark county.
The cliff hosts the largest colony of
black-legged kittiwake in Northern Europe as well as a large colony of
northern gannet
The northern gannet (''Morus bassanus'') is a seabird, the largest species of the gannet family, Sulidae. It is native to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, breeding in Western Europe and Northeastern North America. It is the largest seabird in t ...
.
References
Båtsfjord
Seabird colonies
Mountains of Finnmark
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