Official Name: | Kiby |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Finnmark#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Northern Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Finnmark |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Øst-Finnmark |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Vadsø Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 9800 Vadsø |
Elevation M: | 12 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Coordinates: | 70.0622°N 29.8572°W |
Kiby is a village in Vadsø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located along the Varangerfjorden and European route E75, about east of the town of Vadsø. The fishing village had a population of 39 in 2003,[2] although it had a population of 208 in 1891.[3] Vardø Airport, which opened on 1 August 1974, is located at Kiby.[4]
Norwegian-American poet Julius Berg Johannesen was born in Kiby in 1869. He immigrated to the US in 1891, where he published three books with poems.