Municipality Vadsø Elevation 12 m | Time zone CET (UTC+01:00) | |
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Kiby is a village in Vadsø Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It is located along the Varangerfjorden and European route E75, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the town of Vadsø. The fishing village had a population of 39 in 2003, although it had a population of 208 in 1891. Vardø Airport, which opened on 1 August 1974, is located at Kiby.
Map of 9800 Kiby, Norway
Norwegian-American poet Julius Berg Johannesen was born in Kiby in 1869. He emigrated to the USA 1891, where he published three books with poems.
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