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Vardø&_160;(help·info) (Finnish Vuoreija, Vuorea, Northern Sami Várggát) is a town and municipality in the county of Finnmark in the extreme northeast of Norway. Vardø was established as a municipality on January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The law required that all cities should be separated from their rural districts - but because of low population, and very few voters, this was impossible to carry out for Vardø in 1838. (See also Hammerfest and Vadsø.) The rural district of Vardø (Vardø herred, after 1957 named Båtsfjord) was separated from the city 1868. (The eastern part of Båtsfjord was, however, again merged with Vardø January 1, 1964.) The Norse form of the name was Vargøy. The first element is vargr m 'wolf', the last element is øy f 'island'.
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