![]() The island has a permanent population of 36, who survive like the generations before them over thousands of years through fishing, hunting and small-scale farming. Spildra has no roads and there is no car ferry connection with the mainland. Tours in a unique cultural area in Troms Spildra is an idyllic island located in the Kvænangen Fjord, surrounded by high mountain chains on the southern and northern sides. This is where most settlements from the Stone Age are found. The most prominent shoreline, known as “the Tapes transgression”, was created around 6000 years ago. That explains why several different shorelines can be found on Spildra and the other islands. Slowly but surely, the land (earth’s crust) began to realign itself. When the ice masses left the fjords, the downward pressure of the ice masses on the earth’s crust also disappeared. The highest shorelines constitute what geologists refer to as the marine boundary or the level the sea rose to when the ice masses at the pole began to melt 11,000 years ago. On the island of Spildra, there are many shorelines that lie well above today’s high-water mark. ![]() Out in Kvænangen, there are many traces of the last Ice Age. ![]() These are the most prominent nunataks in Norway, created at the time when they rose above thick ice masses on their way towards the islands of Nord Fugløy (North Bird Island) and Arnøy to calve into the sea. In North Troms and the whole of Northern Europe, the sharply pointed Kvænangen Peaks are a unique landmark. The whole fjord is in a U-shaped valley where the ice scraped down the seafloor down 200-400 m. At the head of Kvænangen Fjord, you will discover the bare and polished coastal rock, and the same is the case along other parts of the fjord. Few places in Norway can claim such strong and distinct traces of the last Ice Age as Kvænangen.
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