Tromsø

University town

'Paris of the North'?

For a time in 1940 during the Norwegian campaign of the Second World War, Norway's king, government and High Command withdrew north to the area of Tromsø.

In 1944 the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk near Tromsø by the RAF.

Appearances

 * Series 50, episode 28 (01-Feb-21, Imperial vs Warwick) XVI.ii. Tromsø is an Arctic port between Narvik and Hammerfest in which the Auroral Observatory was founded in 1928 to study the Northern Lights