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Getting Around
Fortunately, this sprawling town has a local bus to connect its dispersed ends. On week-
days, buses run more or less hourly between the major districts and to the airport. Services
are less frequent on Saturday and don't run at all on Sunday.
Taxis (
78 43 53 53) cost about Nkr150 from the airport into town.
Around Alta
Sights
Sautso-Alta Canyon CANYON
The Altaelva hydroelectric project has had very little effect on the most scenic stretch of
river, which slides through 400m-deep Sautso, northern Europe's grandest canyon.
Kåfjord
At its peak in the 1840s, the tiny settlement of Kåfjord, 18km west of Alta, was a prosper-
ous town of over 1000 inhabitants thanks to the copper works (Kåfjord Kobberverk),
which were then Norway's largest. You can follow an easy 1.3km signed trail around the
little that remains (you'll find plenty more information in Alta Museum ) . Half hidden in
the grass opposite the explanatory panel is a plaque in memory of three British midget
submarines that entered the fjord and severely damaged the Tirpitz in 1943.
To the right of the E6, a 9km cart track begins 250m north of the parish church and
leads past copper-mine tailings up to the observatory at the summit of Mt Haldde (904m),
a mountain venerated by the Sami.
Tirpitz Museum MUSEUM
(
92 09 23 70; www.tirpitz-museum.no ; adult/child/concession Nkr70/35/60;
10am-5pm Jun-
Aug)
Kåfjord's Tirpitz Museum, commemorating the Tirpitz , once the world's largest battleship,
is the achievement of local resident Even Blomkvist, who has single-handedly collected,
bought, begged and borrowed the artefacts, uniforms, memorabilia and nearly 3000 evoc-
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