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Vadso / Varanger shores, Finnmark

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: well tumbled.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1850-1944

[doc-adjacent] A Varanger-based Norwegian sea-glass collector documents sustained collecting here; Pomor-trade town burned 1944 - the refuse shorelines are the source.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Arctic conditions

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