Lofoten | from midnight sun to northern lights

The Lofoten Islands, that's midnight sun and northern lights. Fish and sturdy boats. Grey/black mountains rise from the deep blue ocean high into the sky. At their feet there are small wooden fishing villages where cod dries on racks. Eagles circle above schools of herring, driven to the coast by killer whales. Otters on the rocks chew on the fish and crabs they just caught. The Norwegian archipelago the Lofoten, located above the Arctic Circle, is considered among the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. On this website photographer Eric Fokke shows why.

The snow showers that this greenfinch had to endure on the Lofoten Islands made way for rain showers last week. Temperatures rose to 10 degrees Celsius. In the north of Norway, heat records were shattered. And not by tenths of a degree as is often the case, but by many degrees. Even further north of the Lofoten Islands, it sometimes even reached 16 degrees. That normally feels like summer.