| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Oslo is the oldest of the Scandinavian capitals (1050).
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1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Oslo is next to a fjord.
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1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Central Oslo is dominated by the Radhus.
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1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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The Radhus is Oslo's city hall.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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The centre has elegant buildings.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Bar and restaurant named after UK WW2 Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Oslo Cathedral dates from 1697.
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1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Schooner in the harbour.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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The Viking Ship Museum.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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The museum displays three Viking ships excavated from Oslo's fjord.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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The ships date from the 9th century.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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The ships were used for raids.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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Viking shelter.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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Carved sleigh.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Viking Ship Museum
|
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Detail of wooden carving on a Viking sleigh.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Kon-Tiki Museum
|
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The Kon-Tiki Museum is dedicated to explorer Thor Heyerdhal.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Kon-Tiki Museum
|
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The Kon-Tiki raft was built on Lake Titicaca in Peru. Thor Heyerdhal sailed it to Polynesia in 1947.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Kon-Tiki Museum
|
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The Ra II is a papyrus reed boat from 1970. It is based on ancient Egyptian models.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Kon-Tiki Museum
|
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Tha Ra II sailed across the Atlantic from North Africa.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Kon-Tiki Museum
|
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Boat carving.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
|
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Akershus Castle.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Fram Museum
|
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The Fram Museum displays the rigged 39m long schooner, Fram.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Fram Museum
|
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The Fram was used in 1911 by Roald Amundsen to reach the South Pole.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Fram Museum
|
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The deck area.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Fram Museum
|
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Skis, snowshoes and sleigh.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Fram Museum
|
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Polar clothes and gloves.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Fram Museum
|
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Parka style coat and boots.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Munch Museum
|
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The Munch museum displays paintings by Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944). This self portrait is from 1904.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Munch Museum
|
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"The Scream" (1893) is the most famous painting by Munch.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Munch Museum
|
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"Anxiety" (1894).
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
Site / Event : Munch Museum
|
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"Death in the Sickroom" (1895).
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Docks
|
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The fish market is by the docks.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Docks
|
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The fish market.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Docks
|
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Norway has a long history of boats and ships.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Docks
|
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Wooden boats.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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The Norwegian Folk Museum features structures from all over the country.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Many buildings are insulated with grass.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Many of the structures are wooden.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Insulation using grass is common in Norway.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Typical Norwegian farm buildings.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Red wooden villa.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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House made from vertical planks.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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House made with horizontal wooden planks.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Insulated food store on stilts.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Tool used in a sawmill.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Water wheel.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Sawmill.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Small animal hut.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Rural scene.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Barn.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Three buildings.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Barn.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Traditional costumes are worn at the open air museum.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Traditional costume.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Wooden carving.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
Site / Event : Stave Church
|
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Wooden stave church dating from the 1200s.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
Site / Event : Stave Church
|
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The Stave church was moved to the museum in 1885.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
Site / Event : Stave Church
|
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Wooden carving on the entrance.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Norwegian Folk Museum
|
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Woman with traditional dress and basket.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Bygdoy Peninsula
|
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The Bygdoy Peninsula.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Bygdoy Peninsula
|
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Ferry terminal.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Bygdoy Peninsula
|
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Islands dot the bay.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
City / Town : Oslo
District : Bygdoy Peninsula
|
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The forested peninsula.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Central Norway is a land of lakes and forests.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Typical lake landscape.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Isolated houses.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Forested lake.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Picturesque view.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Misty view.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Forests overlooking a lake.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Settlement by a lakeshore.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Dark mountains.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Fertile landscape.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Farmland on a flat plain.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Forested hills overlooking a lake.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Misty forest.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Settlement in the mist.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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High latitude forest.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Lakeside settlement.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Conifers.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Houses on a hillside.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Wooden house.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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The centre of the country is a high plateau.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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High altitude lake.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Barren mountains.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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The highlands are sparesly populated.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Isolated research station.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Stark and barren landscape.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Norway's wild central plateau.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Lakeside house.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Lakeside cliff.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Glaciated hills.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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Glacier overlooking a lake.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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The desolate highlands overlook fertile valleys.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Central Norway
|
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House by a cliff.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Flam Railway
|
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The Flam Railway descends 866m from Myrdal to Flam.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Flam Railway
|
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The Fram Railway is privately run and popular with visitors.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Flam Railway
|
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View of Flam Valley.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Flam Railway
|
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Kjos Falls.
|
1997 |
| Norway |
Region : Flam Railway
|
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Remote valley.
|
1997 |
were added from 1 February 2025.