Petsamo, Finland

E24686

historical region

Petsamo, Finland was a remote Arctic region on the Barents Sea that once provided Finland with its only ice-free ocean port before being ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II.

Aliases (4)

Petsamo ×1
Petsamo port ×1
Petsamo region ×1
Petsamo sector ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical region →
accessTo	Arctic Ocean →
bordered	Finland → Norway → Soviet Union →
cededTo	Soviet Union →
cessionAfter	World War II →
cessionFormalizedBy	Paris Peace Treaties 1947 →
climate	subarctic →
contestedIn	Continuation War → Winter War →
country	Finland →
currentCountry	Russia →
currentFederalSubject	Murmansk Oblast →
currentNameOfArea	Pechenga →
economicActivityHistorical	fishing → nickel mining → shipping →
ethnicGroupsHistorical	Finns → Russians → Sámi →
formerMunicipalityOf	Finland →
formerName	Petsamo →
gainedByFinlandThrough	Treaty of Tartu →
gainedByFinlandYear	1920 →
hadIceFreePort	Petsamo port →
hadMainPort	Liinahamari →
hadMainSettlement	Liinahamari →
hasCoastlineOn	Barents Sea →
knownFor	nickel deposits →
languageHistorical	Finnish → Northern Sámi → Russian →
latitude	north of Arctic Circle →
locatedIn	Arctic region →
locatedOn	Barents Sea →
lostByFinlandAfter	Continuation War →
lostByFinlandYear	1944 →
partOf	Lapland →
religionHistorical	Lutheranism → Russian Orthodoxy →
strategicImportance	access to Atlantic via Barents Sea → ice-free Arctic port →
timePeriodAsPartOfFinland	1920–1944 →
transportConnection	access to Arctic sea routes → road to Rovaniemi →
usedBy	Allied convoys (as a route consideration in WWII) → Finnish merchant fleet →
wasOnlyIceFreeOceanPortOf	Finland →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Petsamo, Finland ("Petsamo") →	formerName
Petsamo, Finland ("Petsamo port") →	hadIceFreePort
Finnish offensive of 1941 ("Petsamo sector") →	location
Maila Nurmi →	placeOfBirth
Lapland War ("Petsamo region") →	primaryFront