Editing Kirkenes (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:Kirkenes Church with roadsigns in Norwegian and Russian.jpg|thumb|right|Kirkenes Church with roadsigns in Norwegian and Russian.]]
[[File:Bus to Bjørnevatn in Kirkenes.jpg|thumb|right|A bus to [[Bjørnevatn]] in Kirkenes.]]
Kirkenes is one end of the route of the [[Hurtigruten]], which cruises daily up and down the Norway coast to and from [[Bergen]]. Kirkenes is served by [[Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen]]. There are non-stop flights to [[Oslo Airport, Gardermoen|Oslo]], [[Vadsø Airport|Vadsø]], [[Vardø Airport|Vardø]], [[Alta Airport|Alta]] and [[Tromsø Airport|Tromsø]]. The [[European route E6]] highway has its northern terminus at Kirkenes. The northern terminus of the [[European route E105]] highway is located in Hesseng, just south of the town.

Kirkenes is also the [[terminal station|terminus]] of [[Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line]], the world's second-most northerly [[railway]] line, used to transport [[iron ore]] from the mines at [[Bjørnevatn]] to the port at Kirkenes. The proposed [[Arctic Railway]] would see Kirkenes connected with northern Finland.

The town of Kirkenes is also the starting point of [[EV13 The Iron Curtain Trail]], a cycling route that runs along the historic border between the capitalist West and the communist East during the [[Cold War]].