Jøssingfjord

Jøssingfjord is a fjord located within the municipality of Sokndal.

It is best known as the location of the Altmark Incident, where a British destroyer, Cossak, during WWII, on February 16, 1940, managed to free prisoners taken by the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee.

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