The village lies along the Kamøyfjorden on the east side of the island of Magerøya, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northwest of the town of Honningsvåg.

Although there are no ethnic distinctions today, the people of the village are descended from coastal Sami and Kven as well as Norwegians.

A small hotel/guesthouse called the Arran, owned by a Sami family,[3] occupies three blue-painted buildings in the centre of the village.

The top floor of a house in the centre of the village contains an art gallery called the Gallery East of the Sun which displays and sells the work of a German-born artist, Eva Schmutterer, who lives in the village.

[3] There is a small lighthouse, the Kamøyfjord light, on the hill on the Hjalmarneset peninsula at the north side of the village.