Liinahamari

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Liinahamari is a former Arctic port village on the Barents Sea that served as the main harbor of the Petsamo region in northern Finland before World War II.

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Label Occurrences
Liinahamari canonical 2

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former village
populated place
port settlement
borderRegion near border of Norway and Russia
cededAsResultOf Moscow Armistice (1944)
cededBy Finland
cededTo Soviet Union
climateZone subarctic
conflict World War II Arctic naval operations
connectedTo Petsamo nickel mines
country Finland
Russia
Soviet Union
currentCountry Russia
economicActivityHistorical export of nickel
shipping
formerCountry Kingdom of Finland
Republic of Finland
linked to: Finland
geopoliticalSignificance access point from Finland to the Arctic Ocean before 1944
hasRole ice-free Arctic port
main harbor of Petsamo region
historicalEra World War II
interwar period
languageBefore1944 Finnish
locatedIn Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

Barents Sea coast
Murmansk Oblast
Petsamo region
north of the Arctic Circle
locatedOn Barents Sea
notableFor being Finland's only Arctic Ocean port before World War II
strategic naval importance in World War II
partOf Petsamo
linked to: Petsamo region
postWarStatus no longer part of Finland
part of Soviet Union
regionType Arctic coastal area
sea Barents Sea
strategicImportance access to Arctic Ocean
ice-free harbor in winter
transportFunction export harbor
seaport
usedBy Finnish merchant navy
German Kriegsmarine
linked to: Kriegsmarine

Soviet Navy
wasBombardedDuring World War II
wasOccupiedBy Germany
wasOccupiedDuring World War II

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Petsamo, Finland hadMainSettlement Liinahamari
Petsamo, Finland hadMainPort Liinahamari