Main Street in Hammerfest, Finnmark (Norway)

The main street of Hammerfest, with busy everyday life. The street has wooden buildings on both sides. The church in the distance. This print is part of "Atlas Historique et Pittoresque", published in 1842-1852 for "Voyages de la Commission Scientifique du Nord" about the French scientific expedition La Recherche (1838–1840).

Mayer participated in several Arctic expeditions, and he may have visited Hammerfest, which was an important harbor for arctic explorers, being the northernmost harbor, before the Barents Sea.