Editing Gamvik Municipality (section)

==History==
In June 1972 construction started for [a landside terminal and] running a [[SOSUS]] cable into the sea.<ref name=SOSUS/> The SOSUS station was one of more than twenty worldwide.<ref name="SOSUS">{{Cite web |date=28 December 2016 |title=Den hemmelige låven |url=https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/hemmelige-rom-ii_-episode-2-1.12703387}}</ref>

===1982 air crash===
{{main|Widerøe Flight 933}}
On 12 March 1982, a [[Widerøe]] [[Twin Otter]], registration number LN-BNK, crashed into the sea near Mehamn, killing all fifteen on board. More than twenty years and four rounds of investigation later, this incident remained highly controversial in Norway.