Recipe Whole Fillet Steak

trip to North Cape

for tourism, it is interesting to say, the North Cape is the northernmost point of Europe, but he lives on superlatives like the monarch butterfly on its host plant. The tourists themselves are the ones who want to hear it, to which greatest, most beautiful, most unique, most northern places they had traveled, which was allowed to share unique experiences you - after all, one has to tell you something, if you're from the far reaches of the world arrived back in the mundane everyday life.

Sun all this is true but not without trying to say is that the tour operators and locals would tell the truth. Looking at the northernmost point of mainland Europe, we find that in North chin. North chin is a peninsula and therefore still connected to the mainland. While the North Cape is located further north, but not on the mainland.

Mageröya is called the Norwegian island where is located the North Cape. Mageröya could be translated as "lean, waste land, and in fact there is only sparse grazing land available. trees are not even there, because the northern tree-line is considerably further south.

A high level of slate rock is that which rises steeply from the Arctic Ocean. This slate plateau is the outstanding point is used as the "North Cape" has become famous. Still, even on this island there is a strip of land that lies further north than the North Cape itself. This headland is called Knivskjellodden. It is exactly 1380 meters further north than the North Cape, which Knivskjellodden So actually the northernmost point of Europe.

You can get there but not with the car, but only an 8-kilometer walk, and then "just" a flat piece of wasteland, which runs into the sea, losing in the cold lake. This can be at home making no state, and the road is tough to boot. As you drive everywhere prefer the bus or car to the North Cape, with its impressive globe, before they can be photographed, proud of another piece of travel prey.

Ultimately, however, is pointless to argue about a geographical point. Either way, the landscape of this region offers its wonderful beauty and attracts one in its spell. 200 000 tourists annually visiting the North Cape. So very boring, like the preceding text could have probably taught as a premature impression that it is there, then probably not yet, especially if there is the midnight sun on the horizon and all the magic that reveals beautiful spots on earth!

The plateau in 1828 became the first of Norwegian Baltazar Mathias Keilhau from the Bay of Hornvika. On 9 July 1845 began with the arrival of the first vacation trip of the steamship "Prinds Gustav from Hammerfest to the North Cape of organized tourism. 1861 Carl Vogt founded the tradition at the North Cape to drink champagne to celebrate the arrival. The first organized group travel from London organizing the travel agent Cook 1875th The big breakthrough for the Northern Cape as a tourist destination came when the Hurtigruten ship services firm set up in 1893 along the coast to the north.