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Alta travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Alta is a town and municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alta. Alta was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. The new municipality of Talvik was separated from Alta on 1 January 1863, but it was merged back into Alta on 1 January 1964. The Rock carvings at Alta, dating from circa 4200 BC to 500 BC, are on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The Komsa culture was named after the Komsa mountain in Alta municipality, where the first archeological remains of this culture were discovered. In World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz used Kåfjord, an arm of Altafjord, as a harbor, and was damaged here by attacking allied warplanes. Altasaken in 1979 made headlines for weeks, as many people (especially Sami people and environmentalists) demonstrated and used civil disobedience to prevent the building of a dam in order to produce hydropower. The dam was built, however, and the river still offers good salmon fishing. Alta became a city (town) in 1999. The population has been growing steadily for many years ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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