Måsske/Musken lies halfway along the long and small Hellmofjorden, part of Tysfjorden

Tysfjorden

Tysfjorden is a fjord in Tysfjord municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The fjord stretches southwards from Korsnes on the Ofoten fjord....

. The village is not far from Hellemobotn, in Finnmark

Finnmark

or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

, where Norway is at its narrowest. From Hellemobotn, it is just six kilometres from Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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Northern Europe's deepest cave, Raggejavreraige

Raggejavreraige

Raggejavreraige is a cave located above the Hellemofjord in northern Norway. It is the deepest cave in Scandinavia and the only known deep cave north of the Arctic Circle.-Regional Setting:...

, is not far from Musken. The cave is 597m deep.

Next to Drag school, also in Tysfjord, is Musken school the only school in the world with lessons in the Lule Sami

Lule Sami

Lule Sami is a Uralic, Sami language spoken in Lule Lappmark, i.e., around Luleå, Sweden and in the northern parts of Nordland county in Norway, especially Tysfjord municipality, where Lule Sami is an official language...

language.

Måsske/Musken today has 40 inhabitants, and only 6 students in the local school.

Måsske/Musken today has one of Norway's only manual mail sorting centres.