Showing posts with the label Norway

The Audacity of Peter Tordenskjold: The Naval Captain Who Asked His Enemy For Ammo in The Middle of a Battle

Sep 12, 2020

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 Last German Surrender

Jan 24, 2020

The weather station where 11 German soldiers were trapped, forgotten by the fallen Nazis. Weather played an important role during the Se...

Bouvet Island: The Uninhabited Island With Its Own Top-Level Internet Domain

Oct 8, 2019

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...

The Ice Block Expedition of 1959

May 13, 2019

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...

The Glass Fishing Floats of Japan And Norway

Sep 10, 2018

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...

Whale Graveyards

Feb 22, 2018

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...

This Football Stadium in Henningsvær

May 1, 2017

The Henningsvær Idrettslag Stadion in the small fishing village of Henningsvær, located on two small islands off Lofoten, in Norway, can har...

Underwater Mailboxes Around The World

Apr 25, 2017

Remember the last time you were diving underwater and you suddenly remembered an important letter you had to post that very instant? Yup, it...

Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size

Oct 21, 2016

From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...

Swords in The Rock, Norway

Apr 13, 2016

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...

The Stave Churches of Norway

Mar 21, 2016

During the Middle Ages, a new type of wooden construction technique became popular all over northwestern Europe, especially in Norway, where...

The Norway Spiral

Feb 25, 2016

On December 9, 2009, a curious spiral of blue and white light appeared in the night sky over northern Norway and Sweden, freaking out a sect...

St John's Eve Bonfire in Alesund

Jul 4, 2015

The Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist is celebrated all over Europe and parts of the United States and Canada. The Christian holy day was ...

The Giant Sun Mirrors of Rjukan

Jul 3, 2015

Rjukan is a small industrial town in the municipality of Telemark, in Norway, that lies at the bottom of a deep valley at the foot of the mi...

Noorderlicht: The Ice-bound Ship Hotel

Jun 16, 2015

Noorderlicht, or Northern Lights in Dutch, is a two-masted schooner that spends the summer taking tourists around the Arctic region, particu...

Bastoy Prison: The World’s Nicest Prison

Apr 14, 2015

About 75 kilometers off the coast of Oslo in Norway, is an island that's home to some 115 criminals, including the the country’s most da...

Laerdal Tunnel: The World’s Longest Road Tunnel

Mar 25, 2015

In Norway, it’s practically impossible to drive from one place to another without making a mountain crossing or riding on a ferry across a f...

Torghatten - The Mountain With A Hole Through It

Oct 30, 2014

Torghatten is a mountain on the island of Torget in Brønnøy municipality, in Norway, famous for its characteristic hole that goes right thro...

Piles of Beluga Whale Bones at Abandoned Whaling Station in Svalbard

May 8, 2014

The island of Spitsbergen, the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, was the site for extensi...

The Vigeland Sculpture at Frogner Park, Norway

Dec 25, 2013

The Vigeland Sculpture Arrangement is a permanent, open exhibition of the works of the brilliant Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, located...