Tysfjord
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| County | Nordland | |
| District | ||
| Municipality | NO-1850 | |
| Administrative centre | Kjøpsvik | |
| Mayor (2003) | Kurt Allan Nilsen (Tverrpolitisk liste for Tysfjord) | |
| Official language form | Neutral | |
| Area - Total - Land - Percentage | Ranked 56 1,464 km² 1,360 km² 0.45 % | |
| Population - Total (2004) - Percentage - Change (10 years) - Density | Ranked 326 2,209 0.05 % -11.8 % 2/km² | |
| Coordinates | Template:Coor dm | |
| www.tysfjord.kommune.no | ||
Tysfjord is a municipality (and a fjord) in the county of Nordland, Norway. The municipality is named after the fjord. Tysfjord is the second deepest fjord in Norway, with a maximum depth of 897 m. The large number of whales (Orca) in the fjord in the winter, which feeds on the herring, have made this municipality famous. In addition, the fjord is famous for it's lobsters (notice the coat of arms), which were long believed to be the northernmost in the world. However, divers have occassionly observed lobsters in Ofotfjord just north of Tysfjord.
The mountain Stetind is famous; this natural granite obelisk reaching 1392 m makes an awful impression, and has got the Norwegian nickname gudenes ambolt ("God's anvil"), partly because the summit seems to form a plateu. This was elected as the national mountain of Norway in the autumn of 2002.
Tysfjord is the only location where the E6 depends on a car ferry. Bad weather shutting down the ferry connection might therefore cut Norway in two road-wise (although there is still road connection through Sweden).
There are prehistoric Rock carvings at Leiknes, showing scenes of hunting.
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