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Ellens Café CAFE €
Offline map Google map (Strandgata 14-18; mains around Nkr80; 9am-5pm Mon-
Fri, 10am-3pm Sat) Upstairs from the Coop Supermarket, this is an unpretentious, inex-
pensive cafeteria.
Information
Library (Bibliotek; Sjøgata; 10am-4pm Mon-Fri) Has free internet access.
Tourist office ( 78 41 31 00; www.hammerfest-turist.no ; Hamnegata 3;
9am-5pm Mon-Fri & 10.30am-1.30pm Sat-Sun mid-Jun-mid-Aug, 9am-3pm Mon-
Fri & 10.30am-1.30pm Sat-Sun rest of year) Has free internet access.
Getting There & Around
Buses run to/from Alta (Nkr260, 2¼ hours, two daily), Honningsvåg (Nkr390, 3½ hours,
one to two daily) and Karasjok (Nkr370, 4¼ hours, twice daily except Saturday), with one
service extending to Kirkenes (Nkr941, 10¼ hours) via Tana Bru (Nkr665, eight hours)
four times weekly.
The Hurtigruten coastal ferry stops in Hammerfest for 1½ hours in each direction. A Huri-
gruten hop to Tromsø (11 hours) or Honningsvåg (five hours) makes a comfortable altern-
ative to a long bus journey.
To call a taxi, ring 78 41 12 34.
Nordkapp & Magerøya
POP 3200
Nordkapp is the one attraction in northern Norway that everybody seems to visit even if it
is a tourist trap. Billing itself as the northernmost point in continental Europe, it sucks in
visitors by the busload, some 200,000 every year.
Nearer to the North Pole than to Oslo, Nordkapp sits at latitude 71° 10' 21”N, where
the sun never drops below the horizon from mid-May to the end of July. Long before other
Europeanstookaninterest,itwasasacrificialsitefortheSami,whobelievedithadspecial
powers.
RichardChancellor,theEnglishexplorerwhodriftedherein1553insearchoftheNorth-
east Passage, first gave it the name North Cape. Much later, after a highly publicised visit
 
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