Narvik is a fjord port in northern Norway, set in the north-eastern part of Nordland on the Nord-Norge coast.
When is the best time for northern lights or midnight sun?
They are opposite seasons: aurora needs long darkness, roughly autumn through early spring, with clear inland skies; midnight sun is the weeks around midsummer above the Arctic Circle. The same northern base serves both — but never on one trip.
Tromsø is an Arctic island city on Tromsøya, in the northern part of Troms, in northern Norway.
Kirkenes is a border port in Sør-Varanger, near the Russian frontier in northern Norway.
Bodø is the seat of Nordland, a coastal city in northern Norway set above the Arctic Circle on the Nord-Norge shore.
Mo i Rana is the administrative centre of Rana, an inland town in the Helgeland region of northern Norway.
Honningsvåg is the northernmost town of mainland Norway, the port of Nordkapp in Finnmark.
Hammerfest is a far-northern coastal town in Finnmark, set on the island of Kvaløya in northern Norway.
Henningsvær is a fishing village spread across small islands in Lofoten, in the north of Nordland.
Ulsteinvik is a town in the south-western part of Møre og Romsdal, in western Norway (Vestlandet), the centre of Ulstein Municipality.
Kautokeino is an inland town on the high plateau of the south-western part of Finnmark.
Lakselv is the main village of Porsanger, set at the head of its fjord in Finnmark.
Vadsø is the seat of Finnmark, a Kven harbour town on the Varanger coast in northern Norway.
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