Ruud Streefkerk

After a journey through Sweden, Finland and Norway, we arrived on a beautiful sunny day at the North Cape. The question is whether we will we pass the toll booths to the official carpark for €60 (!), or walk to the brink of the Cape right there, with the Arctic Ocean down below? We chose for the latter. At about 300m depth the ice cold water dashes against the coast. From here it’s only 2080 km to the North Pole, but that is something we won’t do. To cross the cold water and after that the icecap, but that would be carrying things too far for now, but who knows, somewhere in the future .... The North Cape is not the northernmost tip of the whole of Europe, that is Cape Fligely on the Franz Josefland archipelago, which belongs to Europe and lies approximately 600 km north of the North Cape. It is even not the northernmost point of the mainland of Europe. The actual northernmost tip is Kinnarodden, the Nordkinn Cape, lying a bit more east on the Nordkinn peninsula.