Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Lofoten needs to be seen to be believed. Basking within the icy flourish of the Arctic Circle is a jagged shoal of islands harbouring a ...

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, craggy shards ...

Norway is known for its outstanding natural beauty, but the Lofoten Islands in the country’s extreme northwest take things to a whole new level. The archipelago is packed with spiky peaks, picturesque ...

There is an endless visual drama to the Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten, which lies just above the Arctic Circle, with its fjords, jagged mountains (the trolls of local legend) and fishing villages ...