Ergan Coastal Fort

The Northern Fjords


Serving as a WWII museum and memorial, this defensive fortification was erected by Nazi forces in 1940. Various armaments and a network of bunkers and soldiers' quarters are dispersed around the hill with the sickbay and store sunk deep inside the mountain.


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