On November 12, 1720 Peter Tordenskjold died in a sword duel. It will not sound familiar to most people, but he was one of the great nationa...
The weather station where 11 German soldiers were trapped, forgotten by the fallen Nazis. Weather played an important role during the Se...
As far as islands go, Bouvet is pretty insignificant—a speck of rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean over 1,600 kilometers off the coast...
In the autumn of 1959, a 3-ton block of ice made an 8,500 kilometer journey on the back of a pickup truck from the edge of the Arctic Circl...
Every year, Oregon’s Lincoln City, on the west coast of the United States, organizes a treasure hunt where more than 3,000 handcrafted glass...
Movement of the earth’s crust over millions of years have drastically changed the geography of the planet such that what is land now was onc...
The Henningsvær Idrettslag Stadion in the small fishing village of Henningsvær, located on two small islands off Lofoten, in Norway, can har...
Remember the last time you were diving underwater and you suddenly remembered an important letter you had to post that very instant? Yup, it...
From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...
On a small hill on the edge of Hafrsfjord, about 6 km from the city center of Stavanger, Norway, stands three enormous bronze swords as monu...
