Lillefjord

Lillefjord is a small village in Måsøy municipality with only a handful of permanent residents. Previously, it was a thriving coastal Sami fishing village with lots of activity. Here the sun shines 24 hours a day around mid-summer, and in the dark winter there is a very good chance of seeing the northern lights. There was without a doubt, more activity here in the olden days, and before the road arrived here in 1973, it was boats that were the main mode of transport if it was a longer stretch to be travelled. At that time, there was also a separate mail boat from Havøysund which stopped here and at other places in the fjord, and at those times the whole village would turn out for the unloading of the mail off the boat. The village follows the bay round to the 65-meter-deep Lille fjord, where the idyllic Jordholemen lies and keeps guard in the middle of the landscape. Innermost in the bay there is a national tourist road rest area. Don’t read: In the picture you can see the dispatch of the mailboat Tanahorn in 1960.