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Hasvik (; ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Breivikbotn. Other villages in the municipality include Breivik, Hasvik, and Sørvær. The population of Hasvik has been in steady decline due to problems within the fishing industry.
Hasvik Airport is served with regular connections to Tromsø and Hammerfest, and there is a two-hour ferry crossing to Øksfjord, providing access by car.
In the sea off the village of Sørvær lied the stranded Soviet cruiser Murmansk, which ran aground on Christmas Eve in 1994 after her towlines snapped off North Cape. She was on her way to India to be scrapped at the time. Due to environmental and logistical concerns, it had to be removed piece by piece. Scandinavia’s largest demolition contractor, AF Decom, constructed a massive breakwater and dry dock around Murmansk to access the shipwreck from land and demolish it where it rested. The dock around the wreck was sealed in April 2012. By mid-May the dock was almost empty of water and the demolishing of the cruiser began. The project was completed in 2013.
Hasvik is a village in the municipality of Hasvik in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the southwestern tip of the large island of Sørøya. The village lies about south of the municipal centre of Breivikbotn. The main church for the municipality, Hasvik Church, has been located here since the early 1700s.
This village has Hasvik's only connections to the rest of Norway: Hasvik Airport and a car ferry to Øksfjord (in Loppa) on the mainland. The village has a population (2013) of 379, which gives the village a population density of .