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Hammerfest tourist attractions. The World´s northernmost city with over 9,000 inhabitants, Hammerfest, is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hammerfest. There are some villages farther north, but none larger than[…]
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Tromso tourist attractions. Tromsø, a city in Norway, is a major cultural hub 350 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. It’s famed as a viewing point for colorful Northern Lights, with a season that last from September throughout March. From 20 May[…]
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Leknes tourist attractions. Located in the Lofoten Islands, Leknes is known as the trading and shopping center of the islands and can cater to a variety of interests. The 2.37-square-kilometre town has a population of 3,176. The population density of[…]
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Lofoten tourist attractions. Lofoten is a group of islands located north of the Arctic Circle in the county of Nordland, Norway. Between the mainland and the Lofoten lies the open Vestfjord. With its postcard-looking small fishing villages nestled in fjords,[…]
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24 hours of daylight gives the flora and fauna along the coast an energy boost. This is likely to rub off on visitors as well, so why not use the extra energy to experience some of the many midnight sun[…]
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The North Cape and Midnight Sun The North Cape is a 307 meters (1,000 ft) high cliff which is generally referred to as the northernmost point of Europe located on the northern coast of the island of Magerøya in Western[…]
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What is Midnight Sun or Polar Day? The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the local summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the sun remains visible at[…]
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Norway from Vikings to Fjords to the Midnight Sun and Northern Lights In northern Europe, the thinly populated Kingdom of Norway, whose dominion includes the Arctic islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, is partitioned by mountains and has a fjord-gashed[…]
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