Page 18 - Southern Exposure - November '20

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Norway: Land Of The Midnight Sun

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Travel Leaders

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