Stjernsundet
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Stjernsundet is a strait in Finnmark, Norway. It separates the island of Stjernøya from the mainland. Stjernsundet leads from the outer part of Altafjorden, and opens up westwards into Lopphavet. During the World War II Operation Source, a number of British X-crafts found their way from Lopphavet through Stjernsundet and succeeded in attacking and damaging the German battleship Tirpitz in Kåfjorden, an inner branch of Altafjorden.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Stjernsundet is referenced by 2 other articles, and connects out to World War II, geographic coordinate system and Finnmark.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody_region, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Alta Municipality, Landforms of Finnmark and Straits of Norway.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- strait
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Loppa Municipality
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Stjernsundet is a strait in Finnmark, Norway. It separates the island of Stjernøya from the mainland. Stjernsundet leads from the outer part of Altafjorden, and opens up westwards into Lopphavet. During the World War II Operation Source, a number of British X-crafts found their way from Lopphavet through Stjernsundet and succeeded in attacking and damaging the German battleship Tirpitz in Kåfjorden, an inner branch of Altafjorden.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stjernsundet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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