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Vestfjord, meaning "West Fjord" in the Danish language, is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound...

assigned in English. The Vestfjord flows from the area near the town of Narvik to the west and southwest. The mouth of the Vestfjord is about 80 kilometres...

"warn" shipping of the danger. Force WV laid the minefield in the mouth of Vestfjord. At 05:15 that morning, the Allies broadcast a statement to the world...

magnitude of the situation, they proceeded as planned. Renown arrived at the Vestfjord late that night and maintained position near the entrance while the minelaying...

British aircraft. After the conclusion of the attack, Tirpitz made for Vestfjord, and from there to Trondheim, arriving on the evening of 13 March. On...

direction and the Vestfjord branching roughly to the southwest. The Rolige Bræ glacier flows into the Rode Fjord just north of the Vestfjord junction.. List...

preparing to implement Operation Wilfred, an operation to lay mines in the Vestfjord to prevent the transport of Swedish iron ore from Narvik to Germany. The...

Norwegian Air Force it was affectionately known as Vestfjordoksen ("the Vestfjord bull"), due to the immense roar of the aircraft based in Bodø, at the...

seas and low visibility conditions near the Arctic Circle and inside Vestfjord, Norway. While operating northwest of Ireland, a VF-102 TARPS aircrew...

Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gulls (Larus marinus) in Vestfjord, Norway eating fish remnants after fishers cleaned their catch....

or anywhere near. Tirpitz had left Trondheim on 2 July to the port of Vestfjord; the next day, the Kriegsmarine Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Erich Raeder...

in Svalbard Vestfjorden (Vestfold), a fjord in Stokke, Vestfold county Vestfjord (Greenland), a fjord in Greenland Westfjords This disambiguation page...

because of this only one minefield was actually laid, in the mouth of Vestfjord leading directly to Narvik.[verification needed] Despite warnings from...

aground off Fleinvær while hunting German merchant ships entering the Vestfjord. Her boiler room was flooded and she was holed forward. The destroyer...

North Star during February and March 1989, an exercise to rehearse the Vestfjord operations planned to project power over the Kola peninsula against the...

Olafsdottir left Skagafjörður in Norðurland with her son Jon Tordarson for Vestfjord in 1677. In their new parish, her son boasted that his mother could walk...

some inaccessible areas. Orcas are common along the coast and in the Vestfjord area (even in the fjords) in winter, and the world's largest predator...

of Klakksjorda lies on the other side, along an arm of the fjord named Vestfjord. County Road 913 runs along the entire east side of the fjord. Helland...

Westhinder which had already grounded, Athabaskan herself went aground in Vestfjord, Norway. On 24 August 1990, Athabaskan, after a refit to add several advanced...

Lofoten, Nordland 68°0′N 13°17′E / 68.000°N 13.283°E / 68.000; 13.283 (Vestfjord) Atlantic Ocean Vestfjorden, Norwegian Sea 68°0′N 15°4′E / 68.000°N...