Norway is 1,790 km from end to end. Its coastline is 102,936 km. How?
You asked for Norway, so here it is. The wave runs north to south. First come Finnmark and the Lyngen Alps: Jiehkkevárri, 1,834 m, with 140 glaciers between two fjords. Then the Lofoten islands, with peaks over 1,100 m rising from the sea. At Hellemobotn the sea is only 6.3 km from the Swedish border. Count every fjord and mainland Norway has 29,775 km of coast. Add its 239,057 islands and you get 102,936 km, more than two and a half times around the Earth. Galdhøpiggen, 2,469 m, is the highest mountain in Norway and in all of Northern Europe. And then the Sognefjord: over 200 km long and over 1,300 m deep, Norway's longest and deepest fjord. One of its arms, the Nærøyfjord, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A note on coastlines: a coastline has no single true length, because the result depends on how finely you measure it. The figures here are the current measurements of the Norwegian Mapping Authority (Kartverket), as given by Store norske leksikon; earlier and international sources give other totals, such as 100,915 km and 83,281 km. "End to end" is the greatest distance between two points of the mainland, Lista to Vardø, 1,790 km (Lindesnes to Nordkapp is 1,699 km in a straight line).
9,605 real elevation points, north to south. Heights are exaggerated on the scale every episode of the series uses; the numbers on screen are real. Galdhøpiggen and Jiehkkevárri are drawn at their documented heights. The map shows mainland Norway and its coastal islands; Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet Island are not on it. The blue line is the Sognefjord and its arms as drawn by Natural Earth, from Skjolden out through Sognesjøen to Ytre Sula at the fjord's mouth. Borders as drawn by Natural Earth.
Elevation: ASTER GDEM via opentopodata.org. Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:10m. Figures: Store norske leksikon ("Norges geografi", "Norge", "Sognefjorden"); Wikipedia ("Ytre Sula", "Geography of Norway", "Sognefjord", "Sognefjorden", "Nærøyfjord", "West Norwegian Fjords", "Galdhøpiggen", "Jiehkkevárri", "Lyngen Alps", "Lofoten", "Tysfjord", "Hellemobotn", "Earth").
No music: the sound you hear is the elevation data itself. Each note is played by the terrain as it appears, pitched by the height of the ground. The Sognefjord gets the loudest note.
#shorts #Norway #Fjords #Geography #Sognefjord
You asked for Norway, so here it is. The wave runs north to south. First come Finnmark and the Lyngen Alps: Jiehkkevárri, 1,834 m, with 140 glaciers between two fjords. Then the Lofoten islands, with peaks over 1,100 m rising from the sea. At Hellemobotn the sea is only 6.3 km from the Swedish border. Count every fjord and mainland Norway has 29,775 km of coast. Add its 239,057 islands and you get 102,936 km, more than two and a half times around the Earth. Galdhøpiggen, 2,469 m, is the highest mountain in Norway and in all of Northern Europe. And then the Sognefjord: over 200 km long and over 1,300 m deep, Norway's longest and deepest fjord. One of its arms, the Nærøyfjord, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A note on coastlines: a coastline has no single true length, because the result depends on how finely you measure it. The figures here are the current measurements of the Norwegian Mapping Authority (Kartverket), as given by Store norske leksikon; earlier and international sources give other totals, such as 100,915 km and 83,281 km. "End to end" is the greatest distance between two points of the mainland, Lista to Vardø, 1,790 km (Lindesnes to Nordkapp is 1,699 km in a straight line).
9,605 real elevation points, north to south. Heights are exaggerated on the scale every episode of the series uses; the numbers on screen are real. Galdhøpiggen and Jiehkkevárri are drawn at their documented heights. The map shows mainland Norway and its coastal islands; Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet Island are not on it. The blue line is the Sognefjord and its arms as drawn by Natural Earth, from Skjolden out through Sognesjøen to Ytre Sula at the fjord's mouth. Borders as drawn by Natural Earth.
Elevation: ASTER GDEM via opentopodata.org. Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:10m. Figures: Store norske leksikon ("Norges geografi", "Norge", "Sognefjorden"); Wikipedia ("Ytre Sula", "Geography of Norway", "Sognefjord", "Sognefjorden", "Nærøyfjord", "West Norwegian Fjords", "Galdhøpiggen", "Jiehkkevárri", "Lyngen Alps", "Lofoten", "Tysfjord", "Hellemobotn", "Earth").
No music: the sound you hear is the elevation data itself. Each note is played by the terrain as it appears, pitched by the height of the ground. The Sognefjord gets the loudest note.
#shorts #Norway #Fjords #Geography #Sognefjord
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