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Seiland (Sami
SAMI

SAMI is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e....
: Sievju) is an island in the southwest of Hammerfest
Hammerfest

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Finnmark Counties of Norway, Norway. The municipality encompasses parts of three islands: Kval?ya, Finnmark, S?r?ya, and Seiland....
 in Finnmark
Finnmark

or Finnm?rku is a Counties of Norway in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast....
 county. The island is divided between the municipalities of Hammerfest
Hammerfest

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Finnmark Counties of Norway, Norway. The municipality encompasses parts of three islands: Kval?ya, Finnmark, S?r?ya, and Seiland....
, Alta
Alta

Alta or ALTA may refer to:...
 and Kvalsund
Kvalsund

Kvalsund is a Municipalities of Norway in Finnmark Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kvalsund....
 and has an area of . This makes it the eighth largest island
List of islands of Norway by area

Islands on the mainland of NorwayFor an exhaustive list ordered by name, see list of islands of Norway....
 in mainland Norway.

Archeological excavations have shown that people have lived on Seiland for 7000 years,






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Seiland (Sami
SAMI

SAMI is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e....
: Sievju) is an island in the southwest of Hammerfest
Hammerfest

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Finnmark Counties of Norway, Norway. The municipality encompasses parts of three islands: Kval?ya, Finnmark, S?r?ya, and Seiland....
 in Finnmark
Finnmark

or Finnm?rku is a Counties of Norway in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast....
 county. The island is divided between the municipalities of Hammerfest
Hammerfest

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Finnmark Counties of Norway, Norway. The municipality encompasses parts of three islands: Kval?ya, Finnmark, S?r?ya, and Seiland....
, Alta
Alta

Alta or ALTA may refer to:...
 and Kvalsund
Kvalsund

Kvalsund is a Municipalities of Norway in Finnmark Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kvalsund....
 and has an area of . This makes it the eighth largest island
List of islands of Norway by area

Islands on the mainland of NorwayFor an exhaustive list ordered by name, see list of islands of Norway....
 in mainland Norway.

Archeological excavations have shown that people have lived on Seiland for 7000 years, but today there are only people living in Kårhamn
Kårhamn

K?rhamn is a small fishing village on the island Seiland southwest of Hammerfest.K?rhamn has an approximate population of 50 people, where most are employed in fisheries....
, Hønseby, Eidvågen, Fiskebukta, Survika, Altneset and Hakkstabben.

Since 2006, large parts of the island constitutes Seiland National Park
Seiland National Park

Seiland National Park lies in the municipalities Alta, Norway, Hammerfest, and Kvalsund in Finnmark, Norway. The island Seiland is the second larges in Finnmark after S?r?ya, and the two glaciers on the island, Seilandsj?kelen and Nordmannsj?kelen, are the northernmost glaciers in Scandinavia....
.

There are two glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
s on Seiland; Seilandsjøkelen and Nordmannsjøkelen.

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