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Lofoten

Index Lofoten

Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. [1]

139 relations: A Descent into the Maelström, Adelsteen Normann, Archipelago, Arctic Circle, Atlantic cod, Austvågøy, Å, Moskenes, Ballstad, Barents Sea, Bay, Bergen, Betula pubescens, Bodø, Bronze Age, Campervan, Christian Krohg, Cod, Commandos (United Kingdom), Cormorant, Dakota Territory, Deep-water coral, Districts of Norway, Eddy (fluid dynamics), Edgar Allan Poe, Etchplain, European route E10, European route E6, Fault (geology), Fault scarp, Fishery, Fiskebøl, Flakstad, Flakstadøya, Geography of Norway, Giants in the Earth (novel), Gimsøy, Glacier, Gray wolf, Great auk, Gulf Stream, Gunnar Berg (painter), Hamarøy, Hanseatic League, Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes, Heliport, Henningsvær, Hermann Eschke, Higravstinden, Hinnøya, Hurtigruten, ..., Iron Age, Johan Bojer, Jules Verne, Kabelvåg, Kaolinite, Köppen climate classification, King penguin, Later Stone Age, Latitude, Leknes, Leknes Airport, Lev Lagorio, List of northernmost items, Lofoten Mainland Connection, Lofotr Viking Museum, Lynx, Maelström (film), Malus sylvestris, Maritime pilot, Møysalen National Park, Mead hall, Mesozoic, Midnight sun, Moose, Moskenes, Moskenesøya, Moskstraumen, Mountaineering, Nautilus (Verne), Nikos Kavvadias, Nordland, North Atlantic Current, Northern Norway, Norway, Norwegian Current, Nurse with Wound, Nusfjord, Oceanic climate, Ofoten, Old Norse, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Operation Anklet, Operation Archery, Operation Claymore, Oslo, Otter, Otto Sinding, Picea abies, Pinophyta, Polar regions of Earth, Puffin, Røst, Røst Airport, Røst Reef, Reine, Rock climbing, Rowan, Shipwreck Radio, Sildpollneset, Skrova, Skutvika, Sorbus × hybrida, Spawn (biology), Stamsund, Steinsfjorden, Stockfish, Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen, Strandflat, Svolvær, Svolvær Airport, Helle, The Economist, The Last of the Vikings, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Theodor Kittelsen, Tide, Trondheim, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Vågan, Værøy, Vesterålen, Vestfjorden, Vestvågøy, Vestvågøya, Viking Age, Western Gneiss Region, Whirlpool, White-tailed eagle, 68th parallel north, 69th parallel north. Expand index (89 more) »

A Descent into the Maelström

"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Adelsteen Normann

Adelsteen Normann (1 May 1848 - 26 December 1918) was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth.

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Atlantic cod

The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.

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Austvågøy

Austvågøy or Austvågøya is the northeasternmost of the larger islands in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Å, Moskenes

Å (from å meaning "stream") is a village in the municipality of Moskenes in Nordland county, Norway.

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Ballstad

Ballstad is a village in the municipality of Vestvågøy in Nordland county, Norway.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (Barentshavet; Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Betula pubescens

Betula pubescens (syn. Betula alba), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native and abundant throughout northern Europe and northern Asia, growing farther north than any other broadleaf tree.

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Bodø

Bodø (Bådåddjo) is a town and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Campervan

A campervan (or camper van), sometimes referred to as a camper, or a caravanette, is a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.

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Christian Krohg

Christian Krohg (13 August 1852 – 16 October 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist.

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Cod

Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.

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Commandos (United Kingdom)

The Commandos also known as British Commandos were formed during the Second World War in June 1940, following a request from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, for a force that could carry out raids against German-occupied Europe.

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Cormorant

Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.

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Dakota Territory

The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.

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Deep-water coral

The habitat of deep-water corals, also known as cold-water corals, extends to deeper, darker parts of the oceans than tropical corals, ranging from near the surface to the abyss, beyond where water temperatures may be as cold as.

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Districts of Norway

The country Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.

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Eddy (fluid dynamics)

In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Etchplain

An etchplain is a plain where the bedrock has been subject to considerable "etching" or subsurface weathering.

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European route E10

European route E 10 is the second shortest Class A road which is part of the International E-road network.

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European route E6

European route E6 (Europavei 6, Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north-south road through Norway, and the west coast of Sweden.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.

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Fault scarp

A fault scarp is a small step or offset on the ground surface where one side of a fault has moved vertically with respect to the other.

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Fishery

Generally, a fishery is an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery.

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Fiskebøl

Fiskebøl is a village in the municipality of Hadsel in Nordland county, Norway.

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Flakstad

Flakstad is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Flakstadøya

Flakstadøya is an island in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Geography of Norway

Norway is a country located in Northern Europe on the western and northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering the North Sea to the southwest and the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) in the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.

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Giants in the Earth (novel)

Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: Verdens Grøde) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag.

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Gimsøy

Gimsøy is a village and former municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Great auk

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

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Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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Gunnar Berg (painter)

Gunnar Berg (21 May 1863 – 23 December 1893) was a Norwegian painter, known for his paintings of his native Lofoten.

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Hamarøy

Hamarøy ('Hábmer') is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League (Middle Low German: Hanse, Düdesche Hanse, Hansa; Standard German: Deutsche Hanse; Latin: Hansa Teutonica) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.

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Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes

Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes (Harstad/Narvik lufthavn, Evenes) is an international airport located in Evenes, Norway, serving the towns of Harstad and Narvik.

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Heliport

A Heliport is by definition an area of land, water, or structure used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters, and includes its buildings and facilities (if any).

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Henningsvær

Henningsvær is a fishing village located on several small islands off the southern coast of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Norway.

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Hermann Eschke

Hermann Wilhelm Benjamin Eschke (6 May 1823, Berlin - 15 January 1900, Berlin) was a German painter who specialized in marine art.

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Higravstinden

Higravstinden or Higravstindan is the tallest mountain on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago.

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Hinnøya

Hinnøya is the fourth largest island in Norway – and the largest off the mainland – covering an area of.

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Hurtigruten

Hurtigruten ("Express Route", also known as the Norwegian Coastal Express) is a Norwegian cruise, ferry and cargo operator.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Johan Bojer

Johan Bojer (6 March 1872 – 3 July 1959) was a popular Norwegian novelist and dramatist.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Kabelvåg

Kabelvåg is a village in the municipality of Vågan in Nordland county, Norway.

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Kaolinite

Kaolinite is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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King penguin

The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is a large species of penguin, second only to the emperor penguin in size.

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Later Stone Age

The Later Stone Age (or LSA) is a period in African prehistory that follows the Middle Stone Age.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Leknes

is a town in Nordland county, Norway.

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Leknes Airport

Leknes Airport (Leknes lufthavn) is a regional airport serving the town of Leknes and the surrounding areas in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Lev Lagorio

Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (Russian: Лев Феликсович Лагорио; 9 December 1826, Feodosia - 17 November 1905, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter and watercolorist, known primarily for his seascapes and maritime scenes.

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List of northernmost items

This is a list of various northernmost things on earth.

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Lofoten Mainland Connection

Lofoten Mainland Connection (Lofotens fastlandsforbindelse) or Lofast is a part of European route E10 that connects the Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten to the mainland, giving direct access to Lofoten from the surrounding municipalities.

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Lofotr Viking Museum

The Lofotr Viking Museum (Lofotr Vikingmuseum) is a historical museum based on a reconstruction and archaeological excavation of a Viking chieftain's village on the island of Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Lynx

A lynx (plural lynx or lynxes) is any of the four species (Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx, Bobcat) within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Maelström (film)

Maelström is a 2000 Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve.

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Malus sylvestris

Malus sylvestris, the European crab apple, is a species of the genus Malus, native to Europe.

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Maritime pilot

A maritime pilot, also known as a marine pilot, harbor pilot or bar pilot and sometimes simply called a pilot, is a sailor who maneuvers ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbors or river mouths.

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Møysalen National Park

Møysalen National Park (Møysalen nasjonalpark) is a national park located on the island of Hinnøya in Nordland county, Norway.

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Mead hall

In ancient Scandinavia and Germanic Europe a mead hall or feasting hall was initially simply a large building with a single room.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Midnight sun

The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the sun remains visible at the local midnight.

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Moose

The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), Alces alces, is the largest extant species in the deer family.

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Moskenes

Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Moskenesøya

Moskenesøya (lit. Moskenes Island) is an island at the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Moskstraumen

The Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen is a system of tidal eddies and whirlpools, one of the strongest in the world, that forms at the Lofoten archipelago, Norway, in the Norwegian Sea.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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Nautilus (Verne)

Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).

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Nikos Kavvadias

Nikos Kavvadias (Νίκος Καββαδίας; January 11, 1910 in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky – February 10, 1975 in Athens) was a Greek sailor, poet and writer; he used his travels around the world as a sailor, and life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.

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Nordland

Nordland (Nordlánda) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west.

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North Atlantic Current

The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current that extends the Gulf Stream north-eastward.

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Northern Norway

Northern Norway (Nord-Norge, Nord-Noreg; Davvi-Norga) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegian Current

The Norwegian Current (also known as the Norwegian Coastal Current) is a water current that flows northeasterly along the Atlantic coast of Norway at depths of between 50 and 100 metres through the Barents Sea Opening into the Barents Sea.

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Nurse with Wound

Nurse with Wound (abbreviated NWW) is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton.

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Nusfjord

Nusfjord is a fishing village in northern Norway.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Ofoten

Ofoten is a traditional district in Nordland county in Northern Norway.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Ole Edvart Rølvaag

Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 – November 5, 1931) was a Norwegian-American novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience.

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Operation Anklet

Operation Anklet was the codename given to a British Commando raid during the Second World War.

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Operation Archery

Operation Archery, also known as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December 1941.

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Operation Claymore

Operation Claymore was the code name for a British commando raid on the Lofoten Islands in Norway during the Second World War.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Otter

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Otto Sinding

Otto Ludvig Sinding (20 December 1842 – 22 November 1909) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, poet and dramatist.

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Picea abies

Picea abies, the Norway spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

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Polar regions of Earth

The polar regions, also called the frigid zones, of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.

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Puffin

Puffins are any of three small species of alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season.

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Røst

Røst is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Røst Airport

Røst Airport (Røst lufthavn) is a regional airport serving the Røst, Norway.

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Røst Reef

The Røst Reef (Røstrevet) is a deep-water coral reef off the coast of Lofoten, Norway.

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Reine

Reine is a fishing village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Moskenes in Nordland county, Norway.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.

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Rowan

The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family, Rosaceae.

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Shipwreck Radio

Shipwreck Radio is a series of albums by Nurse With Wound documenting their residency in Lofoten, Norway during June and July 2004.

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Sildpollneset

Sildpollneset is a peninsula in the Austnesfjorden on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago.

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Skrova

Skrova is an island group and village area in the municipality of Vågan in Nordland county, Norway.

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Skutvika

Skutvika or Skutvik is a small village in the municipality of Hamarøy in Nordland county, Norway.

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Sorbus × hybrida

Sorbus hybrida, the oakleaf mountain ash, Swedish service-tree or Finnish whitebeam, is a species of whitebeam native to Scandinavia in Norway, eastern Sweden, and southwestern Finland, and locally in the Baltic States in Latvia.

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Spawn (biology)

Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.

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Stamsund

Stamsund is a fishing village in the municipality of Vestvågøy in Nordland county, Norway.

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Steinsfjorden

Steinsfjorden is a branch of the lake Tyrifjorden located in Buskerud, Norway.

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Stockfish

Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which is called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore.

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Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen

Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (Stokmarknes lufthavn, Skagen) is an airport in the municipality of Hadsel in Nordland county, Norway.

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Strandflat

Strandflat (strandflate) is a landform typical of the Norwegian coast consisting of a flattish erosion surface on the coast and near-coast seabed.

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Svolvær

Svolvær is the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality (9,200 inhabitants) in Nordland County, Norway.

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Svolvær Airport, Helle

Svolvær Airport, Helle (Svolvær lufthavn, Helle) is a regional airport serving the town of Svolvær in Vågan municipality (and the region surrounding Svolvær) in Nordland county, Norway.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The Last of the Vikings

The Last of the Vikings (Italian:L'ultimo dei Vikinghi, French:Le Dernier des Vikings) is a 1961 French-Italian historical film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Cameron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom and Isabelle Corey.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt.

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Theodor Kittelsen

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (27 April 1857 – 21 January 1914) was a Norwegian artist.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Trondheim

Trondheim (historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World") is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.

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Vågan

Vågan (Vuogát) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Værøy

Værøy is an island and municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Vesterålen

Vesterålen is a district and archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Vestfjorden

Vestfjord is a Norwegian sea area, the name literally meaning "the West fjord" called a fjord, which could be best described as a firth or an open bight of sea, between the Lofoten archipelago and the Salten district of mainland Norway.

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Vestvågøy

Vestvågøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Vestvågøya

Vestvågøya or Vest-Vågøy is an island in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.

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Western Gneiss Region

The Western Gneiss Region (Gneisregionen) is a large geological unit in Norway chiefly made of gneiss rock that formed through metamorphism during the Caledonian orogeny.

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Whirlpool

A whirlpool is a body of swirling water produced by the meeting of opposing currents.

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White-tailed eagle

The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) is a very large eagle widely distributed across Eurasia.

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68th parallel north

The 68th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 68 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.

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69th parallel north

The 69th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 69 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.

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Lofoden Islands, Lofoten Islands, Lofoten and Vesteraalen, Lofoten islands.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofoten

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