Vardø, Várggát, or Vuorea is a town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The town is located …Vardø, Várggát, or Vuorea is a town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The town is located on the island of Vardøya in the Barents Sea, just off the coast of the large Varanger Peninsula. The 1.2-square-kilometre town has a population of 1,727 which gives the town a population density of 1,439 inhabitants per square kilometre.