Vadso is a city and municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality and the county of Finnmark. Vadso was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The law required that all cities should be separated from their rural districts, but because of a low population […]

Kirkenes (help·info) (Finnish/Kven: Kirkkoniemi, Sámi: Girkonjárga) is a town in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in the county of Finnmark in the far northeast of Norway. The town has a population of about 3,300, which expands to approximately 7,300 if the neighbouring suburban areas of Hesseng, Sandnes and Bjørnevatn are included. During the occupation of Norway […]

Unjárga (Northern Sami) or Nesseby (Norwegian) (also Uuniemi in Kven/Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Varangerbotn.The official name of the municipality was Nesseby before 1989 when it was changed to Unjárga-Nesseby. It was the second municipality in Norway to get a Sami name. […]

Berlevåg is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Berlevåg. Berlevåg was separated from the municipality of Tana to form a municipality of its own on 1 July 1913. The municipality is situated in the northern part of the Varanger Peninsula, facing the open Barents Sea. […]

Detail InformationEdit Queen Street is the major commercial thoroughfare in the Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand’s main population centre. It starts at Queens Wharf on the Auckland waterfront, adjacent to the Britomart Transport Centre and the Downtown Ferry Terminal, and runs uphill for almost three kilometres in a mostly straight south-southwesterly direction towards the Karangahape […]

Detail InformationEdit Great North Road is a major thoroughfare in Auckland, on the North Island of New Zealand. It runs from the fringe of the Auckland CBD to west Auckland. The road is the second longest in Auckland, after its counterpart, Great South Road. In the days before the Auckland Harbour Bridge, Northern Motorway and […]

Affectionately called as the ‘City of Sails’ as there always are a large number of yachts found gracing the Houraki Gulf and the Waitemata Harbor. Served by the Auckland International Airport, this commercial capital of New Zealand is conveniently accessible from United States, Asia, South America and South Pacific destinations. Located on the northern half […]

Detail InformationEdit Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings is a composite World Heritage Site which includes a number of medieval monuments in and around Veliky Novgorod, Russia. The site was inscribed in 1992. Novgorod between the 9th and the 15th centuries was one of the most significant cities of medieval Rus. It lied on the […]

Pevek (Russian: Певек) is an Arctic port town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Chaunskaya Bay (part of the East Siberian Sea) on a peninsula on the eastern side of the bay facing the Routan Islands, above the Arctic Circle, about 640 kilometers (400 mi) northwest of […]

Staraya Ladoga (Russian: Ста́рая Ла́дога), Finnish: Vanha Laatokka or the Aldeigjuborg of Norse sagas, is a village (selo) in the Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, 8 km north of the town of Volkhov. The village used to be a prosperous trading outpost in the 8th and […]