Tafjord


Tafjord is a village in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is in a valley located at the end of the Tafjorden, about southeast of the municipal centre of Sylte, and just west of the borders of Reinheimen National Park. In the park, the mountains Tordsnose, Karitinden, and Puttegga all lie about to the southeast of Tafjord in the Tafjordfjella mountain range.
The village is very isolated and the only way into the valley is by road from the village of Sylte. The road is composed almost entirely of two tunnels through the very steep mountains along the edge of the Tafjorden: the Heggur Tunnel and the long Skjegghammar Tunnel.
The weather station in Tafjord holds several temperature records. The highest ever recorded temperature in January in Norway and all of Scandinavia at and also the highest ever recorded temperature in Norway in November at. These records are primarily due to foehn wind. In April 1937, the monthly average was in Tafjord, the warmest April ever recorded in Norway.

Tafjord rockslide disaster

On 7 April 1934, a rockslide of about of rock fell off the mountain Langhamaren from a height of about. The rock landed in the Tafjorden which created a local tsunami which killed 34 people living on the shore of the fjord. The waves reached a height of near the landslide, about at Sylte, and about at Tafjord. It was one of the worst natural disasters in Norway in the 20th century.