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Autumn birch forest in the mountains of Southern Norway Norway's geography is to a large part dominated by mountain ranges. Birch is usually the dominant species in northern areas of the Middle Boreal vegetation zone.

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice North of Svalbard Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Permafrost soil stone formations, Kongsfjord Permafrost is a layer of soil or rock that remains frozen throughout the entire year and is found at the North and South Poles and in some alpine areas. The patterns on the ground are caused by a complex cycle of freezin...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Mouth, Krossfjorden, Svalbard Krossfjorden lies within the Spitsbergen National Park in the Svalbard archipelago. The mountain formations in this area represent different geological periods and the site is recognized as an important monitoring statio...

By Peter Prokosch

Krossfjorden, Svalbard The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA 2004) predicts an average 5-7 degree rise in temperature in Arctic regions by the year 2100. Krossfjorden is on the West coast of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, and ...

By Peter Prokosch

Kongsfjord, Spitzbergen Krossfjorden lies within the Spitsbergen National Park in the Svalbard archipelago. The mountain formations in this area represent different geological periods and the site is recognized as an important monitoring statio...

By Peter Prokosch

Kongsfjord, Spitzbergen Spitsbergen is the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, the area of which covers around 62,500km2. The climate here is strongly influenced by two oceanic currents: The West Spitsbergen Current (the Northernmost br...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Mouth, Spitzbergen Spitsbergen is an area strongly influenced by the warm North Atlantic current bringing heat and moisture into the Arctic. Agreat majority of Svalbard is glacier-covered. Glaciers supply water to the largest rivers, disc...

By Peter Prokosch

Bear Island, Svalbard The Svalbard archipelago is located in the Arctic Ocean, between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. Half way between the Norwegian mainland and the main island Spitsbergen the isolated Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is p...

By Peter Prokosch

Walrus (Odobenus Rosmarus), Svalbard Both male and female walrus possess the same impressive and distinctive tusks, which can grow up to 1m long. A male Walrus can weigh up to 1500kg and stretch 3.5m in length. Around Svalbard, Walruses reside year-round a...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Moss Campion (Silene Acaulis), Arctic desert, Svalbard Moss Campion is a small wildflower most commonly found in mountainous areas in Eurasia and North America and in the high Arctic. It flourishes in dry, gravel areas but is very adaptable to damper conditions.

By Peter Prokosch

View over Lofoten, Norway Harbour, Lofoten: One of Norway's primary tourist destinations. Fishing is as strong as industry as tourism in this region.

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing boats in the harbour in Lofoten, Norway Lofoten is home to around 24,500 people for whom the traditional practice of cod fishing and production of stockfish dates back over 1000 years and remains vitally important.

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing boats in the harbour in Lofoten, Norway The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), which provides advice on the management of fish stocks, has evaluated the North-East Arctic cod around Lofoten as being in a good and healthy condition, al...

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing boats and gulls in the harbour in Lofoten, Norway The North-East Arctic cod, the world's largest cod stock, is found in the waters surrounding Lofoten. Fishing is as strong an industry as tourism in this region. Cod feed on capelin, another fish, when they move towards ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing boats in the harbour in Lofoten, Norway The cod in Lofoten has become a tourist attraction in its own right. In March or April of every year, the World Championship in Cod FIshing is Lofoten, where fishermen compete to catch the largest Arctic cod.

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishermen in Lofoten, Norway In the ancient past, fishermen would travel for days or weeks in open rowing boats in order to fish from the waters of Lofoten throughout the entire winter. To house these seasonal guests, Rorbu (small huts) were built a...

By Lawrence Hislop

Fishing nets The production of salt fish dates back over 1000 years in Norway and the fish has become a main ingredient in Mediterranean, West African, Caribbean, and Brazilian cuisines. In Norway the fish is dried outdoors by the...

By Lawrence Hislop

Arctic vegetation, Norway In 2008 the United Nations Environment Program expressed extreme concern for the implications of climate change on the Arctic regions. A warming Arctic climate is projected to cause various consequences such as melting s...

By Lawrence Hislop

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