Hammerfest Norway
Norway
3184
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At departure or passage at this port
Costa Cruises (1 Cruises)
Crystal Cruises (12 Cruises)
Crystal Serenity
6 Cruises
Holland America Line (3 Cruises)
Hurtigruten (3162 Cruises)
MS Kong Harald
518 Cruises
MS Nordkapp
537 Cruises
MS Nordlys
489 Cruises
| 28 August | 7 days | One-way from Bergen to Kirkenes |
| 28 August | 12 days | Round-trip from Bergen, Norway |
| 28 August | 11 days | One-way from Bergen to Trondheim |
| 31 August | 4 days | One-way from Svolvaer to Kirkenes |
MS Nordnorge
507 Cruises
MS Polarlys
592 Cruises
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MS Richard With
519 Cruises
Frequently Asked Questions
Most ships berth at the central quay, steps from the main street. Some use the Fuglenes mole 1.6 kilometres away, a distance covered in a twenty-minute walk along the bay.
Yes, it lies at 70 degrees north. The light there is like nowhere else: from mid-May to late July the sun does not set, and in winter it vanishes for two months, leaving the northern lights to occupy the sky.
A modest UNESCO-listed monument on Fuglenes point. It marks the northern end of the Struve Geodetic Arc, a chain of measurements stretched in the 19th century from the Black Sea to the Arctic to calculate the exact shape of the Earth. A ten-minute waterside walk leads there.
Because in 1944 the retreating German army burned the entire town, as it did across Finnmark. Evacuated residents came back and rebuilt their city board by board. The Reconstruction Museum tells that story through objects saved from the flames and the barracks of the first years.
A harbourside institution keeping a unique tradition: you can only become a member in person, in Hammerfest itself. Its small museum covers the era of Arctic hunters and expeditions to Svalbard, and many passengers leave with their membership certificate.
Everything sits within a small area: shops, cafes, museums and waterfront. Count on the Reconstruction Museum, the Polar Bear Society, the walk to the Meridian Column and the climb up Mount Salen. No excursion is essential.
No. A zigzag path starts behind the centre and reaches the summit in about twenty minutes, where a turf-roofed wooden pavilion serves as a lookout: the town curves around the harbour and, on a clear day, the Barents Sea closes the horizon.
Often in summer, right in the streets: it is not unusual to meet reindeer grazing the municipal lawns, unbothered by passers-by photographing them.
Its triangular silhouette, inspired by the fish-drying racks that once sustained the coast. It dates from 1961 and stands close to the Polar Bear Society.
No. In summer the sun does not set: this is the season of continuous daylight, not of auroras. You have to come in winter, when the polar night lasts two months.
