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Jøssingfjord

Fjord in Sokndal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway

Field	Value
name	Jøssingfjorden
other_name	Jøssingfjord
image	Norway Rogaland Jøssingfjord overview.JPG
caption	View of the fjord
pushpin_map	Rogaland#Norway
pushpin_map_caption	Location of the fjord
location	Rogaland county, Norway
coords
outflow	North Sea
basin_countries	Norway
length	3 km

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Jøssingfjorden is a fjord in Sokndal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 3 km long fjord is narrow and deep and is surrounded by mountains. It sits about 4 km southeast of the municipal centre of Hauge. There is some settlement on the southeastern side of the fjord: the villages of Li, Vinterstø, and Bu. There is a road that runs along the southeast coast of the fjord, with sharp hairpin turns leading down from the mountains to the shore of the fjord both heading north and south from the fjord.

The Tellnes mine, one of Norway's largest titanium mines, is located in the mountains about 4 km northeast of the fjord. The mine is run by a company called Titania, and the fjord is used as the shipping port for the company. The Nedre Helleren Power Plant is located at the head of the fjord. The electricity is generated by water from lakes located high in the mountains and the water is piped down to the sea level power plant the force of the falling water produces the electricity.

At the head of the fjord is the small Helleren farm which is now abandoned. It sits in a narrow valley with steep rock cliffs on two sides, a rock scree on the third side, and the fjord on the fourth side. The base of one of the rock cliffs stops about 8 m above the ground forming a rock shelter, or heller (hence the name of the farm). The farm is preserved and is now owned by the Dalane folk museum.

Jøssingfjord is a place of iconic importance in the history of Norwegian anti-fascism.

Media gallery

Helleren Jøssingfjord.jpg|Head of the fjord Jøssingfjorden.jpg|Head of the fjord, view of the shipping port Vinterstø 20150621 111340.jpg|Looking towards the head of the fjord Traditional houses at Helleren i Jøssingfjord, Norway.jpg|Helleren farm with two traditional houses from the 1800s built under the rock shelter

History

The fjord is well known as the location of the World War II-era Altmark incident. On 16 February 1940, the British destroyer managed to free prisoners taken by the from the .

After this incident in the Jøssingfjorden, the term Jøssing came to mean a Norwegian patriot, the opposite of a Quisling (or traitor). The Norwegian collaborator government tried to neutralize their nickname Quislings by using the Jøssingfjord event to coin a derogatory term Jøssing, referring to "anti-nazis". This attempt backfired, as it was quickly appropriated as a positive term by the Norwegian populace, and in 1943 the word was banned from official use. As a consequence, the best known illegal Norwegian newspaper got its name from the same incident: Jøssingposten (The Jøssing Post).

References

Store norske leksikon. "Jøssingfjord".

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