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| The Point of Interest on route this morning is the natural gas refinery near Hammerfest....the facility became operational in 2007 with all of the production facilities on the seabed at a depth of 345 metres so as not to interfere with fishing nets....costing billions of Norwegian krona to build it is now yielding a profit of 50 million krona per day and they estimate enough gas to last until 2050.... |
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| Our main stop today is in Hammerfest and the 11am torchlight procession to the most northern Catholic Church in the world... |
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| Very atmospheric.... |
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| Still very strange to accept that the sun has risen and set and still only late morning.... |
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| Hammerfest probably due to the gas field is the only community in Finnmark that has a growing population the rest are declining.... |
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| Two Trolls or Nisse and very much part of Norwegian folklore.... |
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| And two more Trolls...Christmas cheers..... |
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| The call went out there was possible Aurora Borealis sightings...sadly not to the human eye just a smidgeon through the camera...it would have been fabulous on Christmas Day to see the lights but not to be...hey ho luck of the draw and we have had a totally different but fabulous Christmas Day.... Until tomorrow it's nighty night from the Sky Watchers.... |
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