"A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders." -Lord Dunzany

Archive for October, 2010

Partial Panorama of the Ofoten Fjord – Sunset

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Grand Panorama of the Ofoten Fjord and Narvik

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Moments of Autumn


Today’s Panorama – October 10th, 2010

View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).


Wing Clipping “The Yellow Angel”

The Ambulance Plane landed no less than 3 times yesterday. Nevertheless they are now going to shut down the airport and cut off some 20.000 people from this life-saving transport. Instead they are going to build a bridge and transport patients to a regional airport. Compared to the 5-minute ride from the local hospital to Narvik Airport today, the patients will in the future have to be transported to Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes. A transport-time of at least 45 minutes. How many critically ill patients will die during these some extra 40 minutes? Today the ambulance operator Lufttransport AS flies some 300 missions a year to Narvik Lufthavn.

The picture below is a montage of one of the “Yellow Angel’s” 3 missions to Narvik yesterday.


“Visit” Narvik..!

A few excellent links on Narvik:

INARVIK – Magazine about Narvik (Norwegian)

FREMOVER – Local Newspaper (Norwegian)

DestinationNarvik – Travel information about Narvik (English version)

Wonder what the Norwegian pages is all about? Try Google Translate!