Vardøhus Fortress

Finnmark · Norway

Vardøhus Fortress, Norway
Photo: Timo Noko, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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The world's northernmost surviving fortress, a small star-shaped stronghold on the Barents Sea coast of far northeast Norway. Its turf-roofed buildings sit within low bastioned earthworks facing the Arctic.

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