Wikipedia
Finnmark (, , ) is a county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland ( Lapland region) to the south, and Russia ( Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea ( Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea ( Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.
The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt. Since 2002, it has had two official names: Finnmark ( Norwegian) and Finnmárku ( Sami language). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark has always been an area where East meets West, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther east than the cities of St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
Usage examples of "finnmark".
Leader Alan Eastoe turned the AWACS Nimrod in a slow arc as he completed the southerly leg of his patrol at twenty-five thousand feet above the road which straggled across the Norwegian Finnmark from the Tanafjord to the small town of Karasjok.
Except the sense of the mountains of the Finnmark around him intruding, seeping like a gas.
Some of his army would meanwhile have marched overland from Finnmark, Wendland, and the troll homes east of these.
A gale and fierce storm fell upon them, so that they had to turn the helm, and run before the wind, and so they came north to Finnmark, where they spent the winter.
They also state that the communist minority element in Finnmark is demanding Soviet protection.
He needs to take out our installations in Finnmark, destroy our dominance of the Barents Sea.
It was the poor sods in 45 Commando who were shit-scared tonight, sentries stamping numbed feet in the cold, less than ten miles from the Russian hordes who were swarming along the northern frontiers of the Finnmark plateau.
Gunnhild, the sister of King Harald Gormsson of Denmark, studied witchcraft in her early days in Finnmark, and a more beautiful woman there never was.
Norway was in the hands of the so-called South Varanger Garrison, with a reserve force, the Finnmark Brigade, to provide rapid backup in case of trouble.
South Varanger Garrison and a substantial part of the Finnmark Brigade was surrounded and destroyed by Soviet forces here, at Tana, on the sixth.
Pamela Drake stood in the entrance to the tent, wearing muddy army fatigues and a Finnmark cap with the earflaps snapped up.
Two weeks after the first Soviet forces poured across the frontiers in Finnmark, it was clear that neither Sweden nor Denmark was going to surrender without a fight.
I became a hunter and trapper, who early went on ships bound north to Finnmark and Bjarmiland.
Lofantyr of Torunn will be shrieking for more troops, of course, and Skarpathin of Finnmark will be convinced that the next blow is to fall upon him.
Perigraine may well follow the lead of Torunna and Almark will then be isolated, even if it has the support of Finnmark and the northern duchies.