Hamn i Senja is a former fishing village on the outer coast of Senja, dating back to at least the 1880s. The old wooden buildings around the harbour have been preserved and the site now operates as a resort, but the physical setting is still the original one: a tight group of timber buildings on a rocky shore facing the Norwegian Sea.
The village is a good example of how the smallest fishing communities on the outer coast looked before the modern era. The buildings are squeezed onto the only flat ground between the mountains and the water, with barely room for a road. The harbour is tiny.
The village is a good example of how the smallest fishing communities on the outer coast looked before the modern era. The buildings are squeezed onto the only flat ground between the mountains and the water, with barely room for a road. The harbour is tiny.
