Polar night & midnight sun: Far North photo gallery

Are you amazed by the land­scapes under the extreme lights and nights? We are our­selves enam­ored with the Far North and share this won­der. Take a short jour­ney with us through these mag­i­cal lands whose land­scapes are worth the efforts of cir­ca­di­an adap­ta­tion.

Do you want to know the length of today’s sun­shine in your Far North loca­tion? Check our Polar Day­light Track­er by cities and lat­i­tudes.

Our jour­ney begins in North­ern Nor­way, above the Arc­tic Cir­cle. Trom­sø (69°N40) is home to the world’s norther­most uni­ver­si­ty, Uni­ver­sitetet i Trom­sø – Norges ark­tiske uni­ver­sitet.

Not far to the west lies the mar­velous island of Som­marøy. Under the eter­nal sun of late spring, the land­scapes invite hik­ing.

A great adven­ture takes us to the North Cape: nine hours of roads and the veg­e­ta­tion thins from birch wood­lands to fell­field veg­e­ta­tion and Arc­tic tun­dra. Untouched moun­tain­ous land­scapes, blue sky, per­ma­nent snow­fields, blue springs and tor­rents, wild nature as far as the eye can see. Adven­tur­ous wild rein­deer cross the road in places.

Back in Trom­sø, a one-hour-forty-minute flight north­ward brings us to Sval­bard. It is the polar night and polar bears roam around the set­tle­ment of Longyear­byen. We brave the dan­ger and set out to trek among breath­tak­ing moun­tain land­scapes, at ‑30°C.

Here is Sval­bard when the panora­ma lights up again.