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#0753 Lofoten Dream EXPLORED

Kabelvåg is a village in Vågan municipality on the southern shore of Austvågøy island, one of the Lofoten island group in the county of Nordland, northern Norway.

Kabelvåg lies a little to the south-west of Svolvær, the administrative center of Vågan municipality. The village was founded as Vågan in the early 12th century by King Øystein Magnusson, who built a church and a fishermen's hostel there. According to Heimskringla, there was something resembling a town there several centuries earlier — the first known town in North Norway, known as Vågar. The Lofoten Museum, as well as the Lofoten Aquarium and the Espolin Gallery, are all located in Kabelvåg. (Wikipedia)

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#0752 Lofoten

Somewhere between Svolvær and Laukvika on Lofoten, Norway.

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#0751 Quintessence of Nature's Beauty

Norway's nature is so beautiful, it's endless, it's calm, it's just amazing.

Taken near Svolvaer on Lofoten.

Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude. (Wikipedia)

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#0750 Nordic Calmness EXPLORED

A small town called Reine (Moskenes) on Lofoten, Norway.

Reine is the administrative centre of Moskenes municipality, Norway. Its population (SSB 2005) is 342. It has been a commercial centre since 1743. Today tourism is important. In spite of its remote location thousands of people visit this neighborhood annually.

European route E10 passes through Reine. The largest weekly magazine in Norway (Allers) selected Reine as the most beautiful village in Norway in the late 1970s. A photograph over Reine from the mountain Reinebringen has been used for the front page of several tourist brochures and books. (Wikipedia)

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