Musken

Musken (Norwegian) or Måsske (Lule Sami)^[2] is a village in Hamarøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It lies halfway along the long and small Hellmofjorden, an arm of the Tysfjorden. The village is not far from Hellemobotn, where mainland Norway is at its narrowest, just 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) wide from the ocean shore to Sweden.^[3]

Musken (Norwegian) Måsske (Lule Sami)
Village
View of the village
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Coordinates: 67.8881°N 16.2243°E / 67.8881; 16.2243
Country	Norway
Region	Northern Norway
County	Nordland
District	Salten
Municipality	Hamarøy Municipality
Elevation [1]	163 m (535 ft)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code	8274 Musken

In 2016, Musken and the surrounding area has 33 full-year residents,^[3] although the population increases significantly in the summertime. The local school is now closed, but Musken school was one of two schools in the world that taught in the Lule Sami language (the other school in nearby Drag is still in operation).

Musken has Norway's only manual mail sorting centre. One of Northern Europe's deepest caves, Raggejavreraige, is located just south of Musken. The cave is 580 metres (1,900 ft) deep.

References

1. "Musken, Tysfjord (Nordland)". yr.no. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
2. "Informasjon om stadnamn". Norgeskart (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
3. Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2016-06-30). "Musken – samisk Måsske". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2019-01-15.