A shaded-relief portrait of the far north of Scandinavia, from the islands of Lofoten to the high mountains of Swedish Lapland.
A shaded-relief portrait of the far north of Scandinavia, from the islands of Lofoten to the high mountains of Swedish Lapland.
Lofoten and Vesterålen reach out into the Norwegian Sea, the Norskehavet, with Vestfjorden between them and the mainland. Further north, Senja and the Lyngen Alps, Lyngsalpan, break the coast into fjords and mountain peninsulas. Inland, across the border, the massifs of Kebnekaise and Sarek rise around Akkajaure and Torneträsk before the land falls away into the forested lowlands to the east.
The relief is sculpted with soft cast shadows, coloured from green valleys to pale stone summits, and set on a quiet blue-grey sea with a warm paper margin. Places are named in their local forms, with a scale bar in the margin.