![]() Just outside the village there is a chain of mountainous islands collectively known as Gjesværstappan. On the western side of Magerøya is the fishing village of Gjesvær. The North Cape is in the background © Kjell Bendik Pedersen 03: Skarsvåg, the world's most northerly fishing village © Bjarne Riesto Gjesværstappan is Norway’s largest set of bird cliffs This is a point for reflection.Ġ1: A fishing village close to NordKapp (C) Bjarne Riesto riesto.no 02: Midnight Sun at the "Church gate" – Kirkeporten. Regardless, it’s not about the weather, the midnight sun, the selfie or the North Cape certificate. However westerly-northwest winds mean drizzle in the face and seven degrees Celsius. If you are lucky, you will see the midnight sun shimmer in a calm North Sea, with a fishing boat in a black silhouette in the middle. We do not think you should take it so seriously, but a visit to the North Cape is definitely about having reached a milestone. In 1664 he concluded that he had now seen enough, and could go home and die peacefully. The first real North Cape tourist, who travelled here just to say he had been here, was the Jesuit father Francesco Negri, who spent three years travelling up to the North Cape. The cliff rises 307 metres from the North Sea, and from here you look north to an empty horizon. Soon more explorers, merchants and whalers arrived, and the North Cape became a distant, difficult-to-access and legendary point reserved for the bravest. He made an attempt to find the Northeast Passage, a more direct route to Asia, and noticed that the Finnmark coast from the North Cape sloped southwards. ![]() In 1553, the “North Cape” was christened for the first time by the English seafarer Richard Chancellor. Then the great capes, point markers for long and dangerous voyages, such as the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, became a topic of high interest in sailors’ inns, among cartographers and in the emerging natural sciences. ![]() 01: Sometimes you're lucky with the weather, and the sun shines over the Northern Ocean © Destinasjon 71 Nord 02: Hoards of guests at the North Cape © Lars Helge Jensen 03: Midnight Sun at the reflecting in the sea at the North Cape © Trym Ivar Bergsmo The North Cape is one of the world’s largest capesĬolumbus, Vasco da Gama, Magellan and all the other explorers from the end of the 15th century onwards discovered new lands and new sea routes, making the world appear smaller. ![]()
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