Category: Scandinavia
County: Finnmark fylke. ACCESS. By car, leaving Tromso, Road 6 at first runs close to the coast for most of the time, passes through Alta and comes to Olderfjord: …
The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line around the earth at latitude 66-5° N beyond which the length of the day so increases in summer that the sun never …
Province: Kalmar Ian. Area: 1 346 sq. km (525 sq. miles). Population: 23,000. Postal code: S-380 … Telephone code: 0485. Borgholms Turistbyra, Box 115, S-38070 Borgholm; tel. 1 23 …
The leading Swedish sculptor of this century is Carl Milles (1875-1955). Others include Carl Johan Eld (1873-1954) and Johannes Collin (1873-1951). The most recent generation frequently breaks through the …
Province: Vaasan laani (Vasa IanVaasa). Altitude: sea level. Population: 55,000. Postal code: SF-65100. Telephone code: 9 61. Town Hall; tel. 11 38 53. HOTELS. Waskia, Vaskiluoto, 400 SP; Central, …
As a light bulb grows older its efficiency falls off very markedly. A dark-coloured deposit inside a bulb-this was destroyed in a fire in the 1 9th c. In …
County: Oslo fylke. EMBASSIES. United Kingdom. Thomas Heftyes-gate 8, N-Oslo 2 (tel. 56 38 90-97). USA: Drammensveien 18, N-Oslo 1 (tel. 56 68 80). Canada: Oscarsgate 20, N-Oslo 3 …
The road N W from Store Heddinge passes through a number of pretty Zealand villages and in 22 km (14 miles) reaches K0ge (86), from which it is 30 …
Norwegian has two forms Bokmai (formerly Riksmal), the official written language, which is closely related to Danish, and Landsmai, a language constructed of various Norwegian dialects; it has also …
Boat services play a major part in travel between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe and within the Scandinavian countries themselves. In Norway, in particular, several car ferries across …