May is the perfect month for traveling to many destinations worldwide. Temperatures are mild, and the tourist high season ...

If you are looking for peaceful escapes, the Nordic region is a treasure trove of hidden islands. Famous for its stunning landscapes and serene environments, these Nordic islands ...

Dangling at the western edge of the European mainland and well above the Arctic Circle, Lofoten, which looks like a peninsula on the map, is actually a group of about 80 islands, with five of ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Lofoten Islands in the far north of Norway have always been a world apart, a peninsula-like chain of wild ...

And yet among the outermost islands in the Lofoten chain—a broken tusk of snow-covered peaks thrusting into the Norwegian Sea—the water shoals away slowly, only a few feet deep, as if these ...

In the remote Lofoten Islands, youngsters are happy to embrace tradition by collecting the local delicacy and selling their wares Jørgen Botolfsen, pictured in 2020 outside Ballstad Fisk AS ...

If you're looking to retreat from the world, we can't think of a more hauntingly beautiful place than Norway's Lofoten Islands. These spectacular islands lie 600 mi/965 km from Oslo off the north ...

She's captured hundreds of hours of orca recordings. This summer, she's listening to the orcas of Norway's Lofoten Islands, beloved by the creatures for its healthy populations of herring and ...

Scandinavians sure do know how to live well. Not only do Denmark, Norway, and Sweden often rank among the happiest nations on ...