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Norway: Land Of The Midnight Sun

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, places in the world can compare for rugged beauty. rock in Norway depicting boats carrying as many as 30
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Likewise, very few countries were influenced as much men, warriors on horseback and four-wheeled carts drawn
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At 1,600 miles long As the last ice age receded about 12,000 years ago, hunters by this new freeze and a large portion of the population
and just more than a mile and fishermen edged northward along the coast and avoided perished.
wide at its narrowest point, the bitter cold of the interior mountain areas. These original Survival during this period, by necessity, changed the
the country of Norway has inhabitants established communities along the coastline, way the people lived. Men, who before had worn only
a shape that resembles a taking advantage of the warm Gulf Stream. a belted cloak, now wore underwear and trousers. The
tadpole swimming south. About the same time the Athenians were building nomadic lifestyle of the people became agricultural out of
The southern portion is the Parthenon (500 BC), the warming trend suddenly a necessity to secure food and fodder for their livestock.
bound by the North Sea reversed, bringing extreme cold to the area. During the People and animals occupied either end of the same house
while the northern portion warmer period, contemporary drawings were chiseled into – an unhygienic but necessary form of central heating.
reaches above the Arctic Circle, and it shares
a common border with Sweden, Finland and
Russia. Norway’s population is about 5.4
million* and about one in four Norwegians
lives in the three largest cities: Oslo, Bergen
and Stavanger; English is widely spoken
throughout the country.
The southern portion of Norway is hilly,
forested and most fertile for food growing,
while the northern reaches are stark and barren,
barely supporting the life of the Laplanders
who live there. Norway is bound on the west
by the Norwegian Sea, which slices through
the sheared mountains to form a network of The Parliament of Norway Building, in Oslo, is the seat for the supreme legislature of Norway, also known as the Storting. It was designed
fjords. With these extremes in terrain, few by Swedish architect Emil Victor Langlet.

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as reminders of their past. Small farms cling to the edge
of the seemingly endless fjords, fighting Mother Nature’s
steep mountain slopes to capture enough land to cultivate.
Norwegians are avid outdoorsmen and sportsmen. They
swim in water about the temperature that most Americans
like their beer. The country’s passion for skiing shines
through in their daily life, much the same as baseball and
football is reflected in ours.
The fjords gave Norwegians their great seafaring
tradition. From the early Vikings who found Scotland,
Iceland and the rest of Europe easier to reach than their
own southeast area around Oslo, to the modern traveler
choosing a ship as the most comfortable way to travel
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fjords begin at Stavanger in the south and stretch north to
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deep into the land, and ends in the quiet calm of Geiranger,
one of the most picturesque spots in all of Norway.
Mother Nature’s Pantry the northernmost point of Europe. Tourism started here
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