What is the_permalink() on a category page?

Question

When I echo get_permalink() in a function that's called from archive.php, it reflects the permalink of the last post that's assigned to the category.

How can I echo the permalink of the category page instead?

Answer 1

Like so:

echo get_category_link( get_queried_object() );

Answer 2

Here you go mate:

single_cat_title();

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/single_post_title