Norway is famous for its backdrop of fjords and Vikings.
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Steep cliffs plunge into the deep waters of narrow fjords.
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If you're considering a trip to the stunning Norwegian fjords, here are some tips to help you make it happen without breaking the bank:Consider a fjords cruise instead of a land-based tripFirst things first.
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The country's fjords fill the long, slender gaps between the cliffs.
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It is renowned for its skiing, Viking landmarks and breathtaking fjords.
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I go for a drive through the fjords at 2201 a.m.
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Fjords are indelibly linked to Norway's identity as a seafaring nation.
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When detonated in the fjords, they can damage ships and fish.
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So another wave of mine sweeping may come to the fjords.
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Pesticides, food waste and sewage have seeped into fjords and rivers.
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This quaint village located in southwestern Norway is known for its fjords.
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Is the non-deal really dead, or just pining for the fjords?
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"No it isn't, it's just pining for the fjords," Alexa correctly responded.
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If the land of the fjords is calling you, you're in luck.
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The folk hero would not return to the fjords again until 1987.
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"The fjords are what make Norway different," said the chef, Christopher Haatuft.
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A short-distance electric ferry has started navigating one of the fjords.
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"The fjords are what make Norway different," the chef, Christopher Haatuft, said.
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The fjords no longer freeze completely and the glaciers are retreating, scientists said.
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The philosophers piled into inflatable boats to explore the fjords and the tundra.
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It's a beautiful place, a land of vast tundra, stunning fjords, and tumbling waterfalls.
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Cruise ships bring thousands to tiny villages at the heads of hitherto pristine fjords.
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Last August, he hiked on a glacier at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.
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The effects were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet.
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Norwegian designer Torstein Aa created Birdbox for visitors to experience Norway's Fjords and mountains.
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OSLO — Norway's fjords have long inspired the country's artists and drawn streams of tourists.
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Beautiful New Zealand is known for breathtaking views of forests, mountains, lakes, beaches and fjords.
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DAB also makes sense in a country like Norway, with its fjords and high mountains.
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The footage was taken in western Norway and showcases the fjords Geirangerfjord, Hjörundfjord, and Storfjord.
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Some of its most stunning natural features include fjords, granite cliffs, and glacier-capped mountains.
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Considering all that's included, our Norwegian fjords cruise on the MSC Meraviglia was a steal.
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From a vantage point inside the design, tourists can experience Norway's fjords and mountain ranges.
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Stay in the mini Birdbox with views of fjords and mountains, for $165 per night.
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EARLIER this month the fjords of Norway's Lofoten Islands rang out with the cries of activists.
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Kraftkar is made by cheesemaker Gunnar Waagen on his farm in the fjords of central Norway.
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The fjords and waterfalls of Bergen, the second largest city in Norway, draws outdoors-loving tourists.
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In May 2019, they took off from a British port and headed north towards Norwegian fjords.
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The route, along highway E39, crosses seven gorgeous but inconvenient fjords, and that means seven ferry trips.
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That group was returning from a flightseeing tour of Misty Fjords when the crash occurred, Taquan said.
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It's a lot like Switzerland or Scotland, really, but the fjords make the scenery much more dramatic.
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He just didn't have many playmates while growing up in a remote hamlet in the westernmost fjords.
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Options for shore excursions, available at an additional cost, include kayaking through fjords and hikes to waterfalls.
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The recently exposed landscape, largely on plateaus between fjords, is dominated by boulders, bedrock and tundra vegetation.
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The scenery was spectacular: sheer, snow-capped mountains rising from the sea, fjords cutting into untouched wilderness.
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Villa Santa Lucia borders Chile's Corcovado National Park, a popular tourist region of volcanoes, fjords and vast forests.
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However, Norway — a country with a bustling capital (Oslo), an unspoiled countryside and stunning fjords — is the exception.
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The crew made it to Tromsø, the largest city in the Arctic, up north in the Norwegian fjords.
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Most people go to Norway to catch the Northern Lights or to take a cruise through the breathtaking fjords.
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So Norway is considering fording its fjords with something the world has never seen before: a submerged floating bridge.
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Their daughter, Liv, told Haug that her father never wanted to talk about what had happened in the fjords.
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She was born in South Korea, and adopted by a family living by one of Norway's picture-postcard fjords.
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Even as the first drones are set to plumb the fjords, the national government is moving in another direction.
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In Norway, mountains and fjords formed natural boundaries, resulting in relatively isolated communities that remained independent of one another.
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Sigrid is not ostensibly looking to mountains and fjords as she writes but a breathless feel still permeates her music.
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Iceland's many sons have made history, and tales of their exploits will echo through the fjords for years to come.
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Viewers can kayak through fjords, get up close with lava, deep sea dive around coral reefs, and explore dank caves.
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The collision occurred as one of the planes was returning from Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
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I went to Alesund, which is one of the smaller cities and Geirangerfjord, which is one of the famous fjords.
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Before setting off for nearby fjords and waterfalls, explore the cultural scene and Nordic cuisine of this beguiling coastal city.
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Soldal said the region has everything that defines Norway, from fjords and glaciers to history and a burgeoning tech industry.
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They were surprised to find that this vertical migration occurred throughout the ocean — in fjords, shelves, slopes and in open sea.
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Some of them make stops at Ny Alesund and the pristine fjords once frequented only by rugged explorers or lonely trappers.
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Florian Ledoux captured this image from a drone last August while sailing around Lancaster Sounds and several fjords near Baffin Island.
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One plane, operated by Taquan Air, was flying a shore excursion -- a tour of Alaska's Misty Fjords -- sold through Princess Cruises.
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Be strategic with airfareFinally, don't forget that you'll have to get to Europe first before you can cruise the Norwegian fjords.
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There was also a lot of ice in the fjords and I wasn't sure if I would make it at all.
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It was returning from a tour of Misty Fjords, a national monument and wilderness area, Princess Cruises said in a statement.
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Trilobites When the Vikings left the familiar fjords of Norway for icy, uncharted territories, they were at the mercy of weather.
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Summer in Scandinavia — a season of sparkling fjords and salmon-colored skies — is surpassingly magical precisely because it does not last.
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Road Trip Before a six-hour solo hike in the fjords surrounding Bergen, Norway, I intentionally left my headphones at home.
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Background: Norway introduced the first all-electric ferry, named the MF Ampere, in 2150, to shuttle passengers between villages in the fjords.
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The triangular viewing platform is perched over a cliff, offering views of fjords, mountains and valleys — from a couple thousand feet up.
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In fact, I was able to go on a cruise to see Norwegian fjords with my family for under $7,000 including airfare.
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But I'd also love to see the fjords in Norway or get lost in the land of Narnia that is New Zealand.
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We decided to visit the dolphin-dense fjords of Khasab, the peninsula's port, three hours and two border crossings away by car.
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Nestled amid the snowcapped mountains and glacial fjords of western Norway, the cloistered coastal city is often associated with its inclement climate.
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Gas, cell signal and fellow humans are sparse as it snakes between beaches and the Andes, across fjords and through rain forests.
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The sprawling coastal park is home to several tidewater glaciers, deepwater fjords and a mountain range named after English naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Two years later, amid disappointing ticket sales, Norwegian spent $50m ripping out all the Chinese fripperies and moved the ship to Alaskan fjords.
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The flight, sold through Princess Cruises, was returning from a tour of Alaska's Misty Fjords and was carrying 10 passengers and a pilot.
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A converted sheep farm in the Fljót region, this 13-suite luxury lodge is set among rolling farmlands, dramatic couloirs and crystalline fjords.
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Norwegian fjords cruises can be affordable, but make sure to shop around for the best pricing and consider more than one cruise line.
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A new generation of superyacht-owners want to make passage for far-flung places such as the northernmost Norwegian fjords or even to Antarctica.
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The country also is experiencing a surge in tourism by those eager to see its pristine glaciers, fjords and waterfalls and the Northern Lights.
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In the following months, Iceland released a series of videos — "Inspired by Iceland" — featuring dancing, singing, glaciers, fjords, and naked women in hot springs.
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Now, a $25 billion infrastructure project promises to cut the trip to just 10.5 hours, by installing permanent crossings across those fjords by 2035.
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Norway is also working on open loop scrubber bans around its world heritage fjords, an official with the climate and environment ministry told Reuters.
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I probably saw over 100 gorgeous waterfalls during our trip, and the sheer size of the mountains flanking the fjords made them absolutely stunning.
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Telegraph Island, also known as Jazirat al Maqlab, is a football-field-sized island set between high cliffs and fjords in the Persian Gulf.
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In our Travel section, 10 writers discuss their favorite places on Europe's lakes, rivers and coastlines — from winding Norwegian fjords to Italy's Adriatic coast.
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Instead of having fun, some people now flock to remote strawberry farms or Icelandic fjords to take photos to impress their friends on Instagram.
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Slap bang in the centre, its close to all the city's charms, but the forests and fjords of the surrounding countryside are easily reachable too.
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But since Pai was against the proposal from the start — just like he's opposed to Wheeler's net neutrality push — it's basically pining for the fjords.
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The excrement from millions of salmon can easily foul up Norway's fjords, and their shallow, relatively still water is a breeding ground for sea lice.
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Five parks are featured: Kenai Fjords National Park, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Dry Tortugas National Park.
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From his perch in Hokksund, a bucolic industrial town nestled among emerald forests and dark fjords west of Oslo, Mr. Braathen has seen the consequences.
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During the winter, six people at most live on Flatey, according to Visit Westfjords, a travel guide for the fjords in the west of Iceland.
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And then the trip after that, we're going up to the fjords in Norway to swim with orcas as they go on a herring run.
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As the changing climate melts Greenland's ice sheet, the runoff is filling fjords with sediment — about 10 percent of all sediment delivered to oceans worldwide.
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Grizzly bears have been swimming across fjords and rivers to colonize islands where they have not been seen before, as salmon become harder to find.
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Lice, also a problem in other countries, tend to concentrate in the more stagnant waters of Norway's bays and fjords where farms are now based.
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He's surrounded by the familiar clutter of domestic life: plants, a stuffed animal, a coffee table stacked with objects, a framed poster of Norwegian fjords.
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Previously, Mow was superintendant at Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park, and joined Glacier National Park when climate change became a highly public issue for the park.
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My husband is of Norwegian descent, so we recently went to Norway to see the breathtaking fjords and learn how Norwegians lived hundreds of years ago.
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Baltic and Northern Europe voyages explore everything from the palaces of St. Petersburg and the glaciers of Iceland to the beaches of Normandy and Norway's fjords.
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The riders will pedal along empty sandy beaches, fjords, Viking ruins, fortresses defending immaculate medieval towns, and the burial grounds known as the birthplace of Denmark.
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"I don't believe in weeds," says Esben Holmboe Bang, the Danish-born chef of Maaemo in Oslo whose dishes reaffirm Norway's union of forests and fjords.
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Travelers stay in a deluxe expedition camp near the edge of the Greenland ice sheet and explore fjords and islands through boat excursions and guided walks.
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I've found peace in solitude — on a full-day hike along the fjords of Norway, for example, or on an empty beach on Mexico's Pacific Coast.
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For the boys, there was the powder-white sand beach and the endless views of the fjords, and no one to tell them to hurry up.
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The sealed design would be suited for calm waters in fjords and is favored by environmentalists and river owners as a way of isolating any disease.
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The episode was filmed in Iceland, where the long drives between Mia's murders unfold on empty roads that wind between dramatic snow-encrusted peaks and chilly fjords.
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Oh, to look out across the snow-tipped fjords of Norway with the taste of brine on my teeth and a sleet-coloured beard to nestle into.
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The archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole is known for its stunning snow-covered mountains, fjords and glaciers, and is a popular cruise ship destination.
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President Ghani had selected delegates to represent his country in Oslo, and the Norwegians had rented a wing of a hotel on a hillside overlooking the fjords.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 24.2 (Reuters) - The collateral damage of the United States' trade wars is being felt from the fjords of Iceland to the auto factories of Japan.
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Glacier Bay boasts glaciers like Margerie Glacier, sheltered fjords and rainforests, according to the site, and is a great choice if you want to check out wildlife.
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The restaurant serves a destination's regional specialties, such as roasted Chilean sea bass while cruising through the Chilean fjords or chicken korma on the way to Mumbai.
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FROM BEHIND the wheel of a self-driving electric Tesla model S, gliding amid the forests and fjords of Norway, the future of the planet looks pretty good.
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Image: Kenai Fjords National Park /Jim Pfeiffenberger via FlickrThere's a killer whale in France that apparently has a special talent: It sounds like it can mimic human words.
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On March 29, 1943, with the brutal Norwegian winter not yet waning, Jan Baalsrud and 11 commandos and crewmen slipped into a secluded cove in the northern fjords.
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All the while, I watched as my friends uploaded images of themselves in front of the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower and on the rims of Icelandic fjords.
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The lure of offshore pens is that they would open almost unlimited areas for fish farms beyond bays and fjords, attracting investors and transforming the global aquaculture industry.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Temperatures in Europe&aposs far north are breaking records, prompting Scandinavians to take dips in fjords well ahead of the official start of summer on June 21.
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People took dips in harbors and fjords across southern Norway, and bans on open fires because of dry forests and grass have been issued in many municipalities in Sweden.
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The P&O cruise ship Britannia was on the final leg of a cruise to Norway's fjords from Southampton, in southeast England, when the fracas broke out, ITV reported.
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Projects change annually, but they have included maintaining hiking paths in the Fjallabak Nature Reserve, working in Reykjavik's Botanical Garden and organizing a cultural festival in the western fjords.
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Baalsrud swam ashore, shot the two German soldiers and then ran, staggered, hobbled, skied and sledded for nine weeks through Norway's frozen fjords, the target of a nationwide manhunt.
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People attracted to the Greenland ice sheet tend to be the type to sail up fjords or to fly single-engine planes, which is to say they enjoy danger.
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Given the size of the country — with its mountains and fjords — and its small population, it is particularly expensive to offer both FM and digital audio broadcasting, he said.
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Drivers of zero-emission vehicles also skip costly road tolls, cross fjords by ferry for free, park without paying in cities and use bus lanes to whizz by other commuters.
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Traversing the country's coast requires venturing in and out of fjords, which is inefficient; and rough waters on the open ocean occasionally strand boats in an inlet's relatively placid waters.
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In the south are Sandoy, an island known for its expansive beach and art gallery featuring Faroese artists, and Suðuroy, which offers bird cliffs, far-reaching views and deep fjords.
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The country is so devoted to its scenic fjords, lakes, and mountains, that it invested $214-million toward building beautiful architectural overlooks from which to observe all that natural beauty.
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TODAY'S WEATHER AND FINALLY Here we goooo This starts out like a normal drone video of Norway's scenic glaciers, rivers and fjords, but just wait until the overdrive kicks in.
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Judging a battle of the bands is a task not to be taken lightly, whether it's taking place at a high school talent show or out among the Icelandic fjords.
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Since my husband is Norwegian on both sides of his family, we have always wanted to explore the beautiful and mysterious country of Norway, and especially its show-stopping fjords.
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I was constantly reminded (and thankful for) the freedom afforded by traveling solo through Norway, versus on one of the many "Norway in a Nutshell" tour buses traversing the fjords.
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Luxury properties like the Storfjord Hotel, which is the best place to stay to explore the fjords and the charming town of Alesund, have rates starting at $200 a night.
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The glass, a souvenir from a cruise that he and Marcia had taken through the fjords of Norway, retained a faint smear of her berry-colored lipstick on its rim.
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And last year the Norwegian peace corps, Norec, an agency that oversees programmes in 25 poorer countries, moved to Forde, a settlement of 220,2465 people nestled between mountains, rivers and fjords.
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On one of the trip's final days, as the couple rode along the fjords in the country's eastern half, Mr. Hillery found "just the most ideal spot," to propose, he said.
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Then, once you clear the tunnel, the fjords come into view, looming protectively above the small, bright clapboard houses and lone gas station that make up this tiny speck of civilization.
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The crash site, at Coon Cove about 300 miles (480 km) south of Alaska's capital, Juneau, lies near a tourist lodge that runs excursions to the nearby Misty Fjords National Monument.
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The cantilevered structure, just outside Oslo, was the result of an open competition where architects were tasked with creating a landmark that would play off the striking landscape of the fjords.
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But Navalny's team married her social media posts with details from the book as well as records of the movements of a Russian oligarch's private yacht in the fjords of Norway.
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Master shipbuilders and seafarers, warriors, traders and raiders, the Vikings boiled out of the Scandinavian fjords starting around the 8th century, marauding through Asia and the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
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Norway, a mountainous country of five million people where fjords and remote islands mean many short-hop routes of less than 200 kms, would be ideal for electric planes, Solvik-Olsen said.
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You can visit one of the popular fjords all day long, retreat to your ship for dinner and relaxation, and awake in a brand-new destination without all the effort of driving.
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The fjords are rich with trout and salmon at certain times of year, but eating raw fish should also be avoided, said Rokkone, days after the authority issued an oyster consumption warning.
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Since 2014, I've been making the yearly pilgrimage to Neskaupstaður, a sleepy fishing village nestled between verdant, snow-dotted hills and imposing fjords, all backlit by a Northern sun that never sleeps.
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Their range was so famous that, only two years ago, the remote West Fjords of Iceland repealed a 400-year-old law that ordered the murder of any Basque visitor on sight.
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Norway is one of the few countries that allow offshore dumping of mining waste, which can destroy vast numbers of fish stocks in fjords with hundreds of thousands of tons of sludge.
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Here's something I learned quickly while roaming the fjords and mountains of southwestern Norway, also known as Vestlandet, by car: Take your navigation app's estimated time and add at least two hours.
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Police have reported that before heading north, Mr. Kamphuis bought a foldable kayak from an outdoor equipment store in the Netherlands, and told the manager that he planned to paddle the fjords.
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In the Bugs Bunny snack category, Norway's electric vehicle owners dodge municipal parking charges, purchase and import taxes, and tunnel and ferry fees—a serious money-saver in a nation streaked with fjords.
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The sharp weakening of the Norwegian crown currency due to slump in oil prices has benefited tourism industry, attracting more visitors to the Nordic country famous for its deep fjords and unspoiled nature.
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Among young professionals, the sparsely populated European country has suddenly become some sort of exotic pilgrimage: Facebook and Instagram feeds are filled with oversaturated images of fjords, colorful villages, and ice melt waterfalls.
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Using live-action puppetry and CGI it sees a German man-puppet head to Norway to scatter his grandfather's ashes in the sublime scenery of the fjords, but things quickly spiral into weirdness.
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Guiding us through the fjords was Tore Haug, a distinguished-looking 74-year-old sports-medicine doctor and former commercial pilot who may be one of the last living authorities on Baalsrud's escape.
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After the meeting on Thursday, the litter collection plan settled, Roger Schjerva, the chairman of the port authority, noted even more important items in the fjords that continue to need urgent attention: mines.
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Dr. Nielsen and other researchers have found them — at least six species so far — in many places around the world, including tidal pools, mud flats, fjords, salt marshes, mangroves and sea grass beds.
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In one's own boat it's possible to explore granite-walled fjords and secluded inlets, to visit moss-draped forests where old-growth cedar trees whisper their ancient secrets to anyone who will listen.
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For most travelers to Greenland, the capital city of Nuuk, like the rest of the country, brings to mind the northern lights, dog sledding, whale watching, and treks to dramatic glaciers and fjords.
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Having celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2017, this stellar, modernist building with a new larch-paneled facade evokes Greenland's icebergs, northern lights and local fjords, thanks to its sinuous features and triangular shape.
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Family Travel Last July, in the height of Norwegian Arctic summer, our family boarded a seven-hour train headed northeast from Oslo to the fjords on the highest elevated railway in northern Europe.
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The company, which operates scenic cruise lines along the country's fjords and into the Arctic, was inspired by Norway's fleet of hybrid ferries and also its growing fleet of electric cars, he said.
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The recently approved plan calls for a mile-long passageway through the Stadlandet Peninsula in northwestern Norway, and would afford boats a safe and quick alternative to the tumultuous waters separating two major fjords.
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The crash site, at Coon Cove near George Inlet, lies near a tourist lodge that runs excursions to the nearby Misty Fjords National Monument, about 300 miles (480 km) south of Juneau, Alaska's capital.
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Eleven people were inside Taquan's single-engine de Havilland Otter DHC-3 when it went down as it returned from Misty Fjords National Monument, which is part of the Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest.
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The water in Norway's southern fjords reached 24 degrees Celsius, about 4C higher than average for the season, and the bacteria in the local sea ecosystem have been traced in much larger quantities than usual.
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He met me in Oslo, and together we took a two-hour flight to Tromso, where we got a car and drove along the fjords to the ferry to Rebbenesoya, the island where Toftefjord is.
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The rugged coast of northern Italy, a vintage British pleasure pier, winding Norwegian fjords and a jewel box of a lake district in the Croatian countryside: Our writers share their favorite watery places in Europe.
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Consider gathering a small group and booking a sailboat tour in the fjords, going dog-sledding and ice-fishing in Tromso, or enjoying a boat tour complete with a prawn buffet and cocktails in Oslo.
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Spread across the islands and fjords of the Alaskan panhandle, Tongass is roughly the size of West Virginia, full of towering old growth spruce, cedar and hemlock, some trees twice as old as America itself.
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The movie feels not just like a collection of vacation hits but a true-blue first-person adventure, often exhilarating and sometimes breathtaking, like when it surveys the mountains and fjords of the sailors' home country.
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Crystal Serenity's 900 passengers will land next in Pond Inlet, a small Inuit community of 1,500 people on Baffin Island, where tourists will be treated to views of the stunning fjords Dennis Nutarak sees every day.
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On leaving town, they bypass a low road, which was built in the nineteen-nineties, and instead take a high road, which rises more than fifteen hundred feet above sea level, with views over spectacular fjords.
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When the road split — Highway 230 continuing toward Homer and Highway 220 going to Seward — I decided to take a short detour, remembering that President Obama had recently visited Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park.
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"The Norwegian Scenic Routes have been a game changer for the tourism industry in Norway and the Fjord Norway region," said Kristian B. Jorgensen, chief executive of Fjord Norway, the official tourism board of the fjords.
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President Michelle Bachelet of Chile recently announced the creation of a 10-million-acre national park system stretching all the way south to Cape Horn, where the tip of South America splinters into fjords and canals.
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Picture Prompts The New York Times Travel section has published a collection called "On the Water: 10 Favorite Places on European Rivers, Lakes and Coastlines" full of photos and videos of fjords, hot springs and seasides.
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Our writers share their favorite watery places in Europe, including the rugged coast of northern Italy, a vintage British pleasure pier, winding Norwegian fjords and a jewel box of a lake district in the Croatian countryside.
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CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE DOWNTRODDEN I delved into the lives of female painters who hiked along Norwegian glaciers to capture views of fjords, not much held back by their long skirts and 19th-century society's low expectations.
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Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, who live in Arendelle, a land based on the fjords of Norway, are the perfect intersection between honoring the authenticity of the country of Norway with the magic of Disney.
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The five new ports of call in Europe include Gdynia, Poland; Nordfjordeid, Norway; Plymouth, England; Messina, Italy; and Zeebrugge, Belgium, adding to the cruise line's voyages in the British Isles, the Norwegian fjords, Scandinavia and the Baltic.
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And it's very funny that Kristoff, the out-of-work ice salesman in this wintry kingdom, attempts a heroic rescue in the name of "true love" by riding his stinky, sleigh-pulling reindeer across the icy fjords.
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The war and the occupation aren't prominent parts of the national identity the way they once were; and yet up in the fjords, there are signposts marked with a red letter B that are left unexplained to hikers.
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You can cruise all the way from Kristiansand to Kirkenes, stopping only for a few quick breaks to plug your car in to charge while you take in a view of the fjords and snack on some Smørbrød.
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Above the tree line, the plateau connecting the two mountains is spongelike grasses, lichen-covered rocks and unobstructed views of Bergen, the surrounding fjords and even, if you're lucky with the weather, the Folgefonna glacier in the distance.
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The wild Norwegian salmon are members of an ancient species that, early in its life cycle, heads down river, swimming through Norway's famous fjords, and out to saltwater feeding grounds, before returning to their native rivers to spawn.
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He also worked on a marketing project to help family-run inns, scattered throughout the Norwegian fjords, become more collaborative — by talking up their fellow inn owners to guests rather than competing with one another on hotel amenities.
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By the end of the year, all national FM broadcasts will be closed in favour of DAB, which backers say carries less hiss and clearer sound throughout the large nation of 5 million people cut by fjords and mountains.
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They write songs about dismantling patriarchy, film music videos in the middle of protests against chemical waste being dumped in fjords and describe their debut album Try Not To Freak Out as the credits rolling on their teenage years.
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By the end of the year, all national FM broadcasts will be closed in favor of DAB, which backers say carries less hiss and clearer sound throughout the large nation of 5 million people cut by fjords and mountains.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The southern Nordic fjords are heating up as Europe boils, and bacteria there are flourishing, infecting swimmers and seafood, including oysters that can take months until they are safe to eat again, Norway's food safety authority said.
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The main draw for me, though (besides the lure of a new festival and a general love for fjords) was Emperor, who were slated to play their landmark 216 album, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk in its entirety.
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Many of dead and injured were Australians on a day tour to White Island from a Royal Caribbean Cruises' ship that launched its tour of New Zealand's famed sounds or fjords, lakes and volcanoes earlier this month from Sydney.
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Mr Stroksnes beautifully describes the midnight sun, majestic fjords and moody stretches of sea, the changing light and the peaks that rise up out of the water, as well as the Moskstraumen, a system of whirlpools long feared by sailors.
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The museum is built on the excavation site of a Viking trading community, but it's worth traveling a little farther to check out the surrounding nature: The area's fjords and mountains remain as majestic as when the Vikings traversed them.
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Finland, which has a famously difficult Uralic language in which words with three umlauts are not uncommon, prides itself on the beauty of its forests and lakes, though Norway is better known for spectacular topography, including fjords, waterfalls and glaciers.
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But my German wife, cheerfully oblivious to the basketball calendar, had booked a family vacation in a cottage hundreds of miles away, in a location known for its spectacular fjords, its remote isolation and, apparently, the complete absence of Internet access.
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The Age of the Vikings (790-85033 AD) is named for the poorest peoples of Dark Ages Europe but the greatest warriors, notorious for successful predations launched from barren northern fjords against rich kingdoms in Britain, France, Spain and Byzantium.
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Rising global temperatures are melting the Greenland ice sheet, which locks up enough water to raise global sea levels by about seven meters (23 ft) if it ever all thawed, and carrying ever more sand and gravel into coastal fjords.
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As she took in the breathtaking archipelago north of the Arctic Circle that is dotted with mountains, carved with fjords, and circled by sea eagles, she remembered she was looking at one of the fastest-warming regions of the planet.
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Now, three years after leaving his small hometown in the Norwegian fjords to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Knutson's looking homeward once more, and is in talks with Oslo's Botanical Garden about creating a large-scale installation.
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They urge travelers to skydive in New Zealand, cruise Norwegian fjords, travel a few legs on the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and visit the beaches of Normandy in northern France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6.
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So escape to the fjords of Norway, where you can forget about the muggy weather and imagine the still beauty of seeing inlets surrounded by cliffs, and pretend you're in a different world where awful, muggy summers don't exist, but magic just might.
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In the video experience, a local ranger will guide you through each park, allowing you to do things like fly over the active volcanoes in Hawaii, snorkel the coral reefs in the Dry Tortugas, or kayak through Alaska's fjords, among other things.
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In fact, I thought I'd completely ruined character creation when I lost that fight and watched my NPC buddies turn Viking into Fargo-on-the-Fjords, complete with a grisly coverup and pledges to never again discuss what happened within the challenge circle.
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He joined Linge Company, a group of young Norwegians who trained with the Allies in special ops and then sailed back on stealth missions, across the North Sea from Shetland, Scotland, and into occupied Norway, using the maze of fjords as cover.
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At Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, physical markers show the glacier's retreat each year, and "as you walk up the trail the signs just get farther apart because a larger amount is melting each year," Mr. Lyons said.
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And in filleting a play that, in Elinor Cook's new version, has been relocated from the Norwegian fjords to an unidentified island in the Caribbean of the 1950s, Ibsen's vaunted claustrophobia finds release amid a climate of rum cocktails and steel drums.
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In August, the geologist Matt Jackson left California with his wife and 4-year-old daughter for the fjords of northwest Iceland, where they camped as he roamed the outcrops and scree slopes by day in search of little olive-green stones called olivine.
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Other musts include exploring the village and fjords at Mykines, which Mesiano calls "the essence of the Faroe," taking a stroll through the streets of Tórshavn and sailing into grottoes to see almost 2,000-foot-tall birdcliffs from below near the town of Vestmanna.
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If you happen to be in Canada on a clear night, look to the stars and maybe you'll see it: a strip of light stretching from east to west, all the way from the banks of Hudson Bay to the fjords of British Columbia.
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His last wish was to be buried in the fjords, in the village of Mandal, alongside the grave of Aslak Fossvoll, a Norwegian resistance leader who visited Baalsrud in the cave at Skaidijonni, only to die of diphtheria four weeks after Baalsrud made it safely to Sweden.
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Biggest perks: Gateway to western Norway's fjords; an abundance of outdoor activities (swimming in seawater pools, hiking, winter train journeys, nearby ski resorts); new hotels and restaurants to escape to when the rain comes; biker-friendly; a blossoming creative and cultural scene; studio spaces in converted warehouses.
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This image—of white arteries gurgling, of an enormous ice monster—would stay with me during the fortnight I spent as a writer-in-residence on the Antarctic Peninsula, and return to me again when I spent three weeks sailing in the Arctic, through the fjords of Svalbard.
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In 21987, he and a co-author, Astrid Karlsen Scott, published ''Defiant Courage,'' a day-by-day reconstruction of Baalsrud's story that exhaustively praises the people of the fjords who smuggled him past German patrols, ministered to his frostbitten feet and hid him in lofts, barns and sheds.
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Here in Voss, a mountain town of 14,000 situated between two fjords an hour and a half east of Bergen, a crystal-clear stream offers modest and even warmish waves — in summer, it's possible to go in without a wet suit — as well as views of white-barked birch forests.
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In the valley below, not far from the town of Cochrane, President Michelle Bachelet announced the creation of a vast national park system in Chile stretching from Hornopirén, 2764 miles south of the capital, Santiago, to Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America, where Chile splinters into fjords and canals.
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If the food doesn't sway them, local residents say they are confident that world leaders will be seduced by their region's uncommon beauty, including 2,300 square miles of valleys, fjords, steep mountains and rivers, originating about 350 million years ago when an asteroid landed here and left a 34-mile crater.
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The country is already leading the way in the sale of electric cars, and its remote islands and fjords mean that its domestic air routes are some of the busiest in Europe, according to Forbes, meaning it has a large short-haul domestic flight market with the potential to be electrified.
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" Per's imperial impulses are manifest in his vast utopian engineering project, which envisages "a system of canals on the Dutch model" that will connect Denmark's rivers, lakes, and fjords with one another, "and put the cultivated heaths and the flourishing new towns into contact with the sea on both sides.
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Not only will cruising let you get into all the nooks and crannies (fjords) along the Norwegian coast without spending all your time in a car, but cruises include your lodging, your food, your transportation, and some of your entertainment for less than you'll pay if you attempt a similar itinerary on land.
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He put many of those experiences — including clamming with a local, cooking a feast in an earthen oven and eating in the home of a pair of chefs who source all of their food within a few miles — in the company's new 3703-day Chile: Fjords, Fields & Flavor private tours (from $6,995).
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The quiet was unnerving but not unusual in the fjords, where a tranquil sense of isolation easily coexists with all the intense, momentous visual drama around you: brilliant green and turquoise rivers, as smooth as glass, reflecting the sun so that you can barely see; craggy, sharp-angled, purple-capped mountains erupting straight out of those rivers at right angles.
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Instead of featuring much-documented vistas like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon, for example, the exhibit instead focuses on a selection of parks you may not have traveled to yet (or may never see), including the Kenai Fjords in Alaska, Hawaiian volcanoes, New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, Utah's Bryce Canyon, and Florida's Dry Tortugas – the latter which was reviewed this month in a New York Times travel piece which called it an "under the radar" national park.
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