Lofoten Islands in pictures

Fokke Foto & Guiding

The Lofoten Islands, that's midnight sun and northern lights. Fish and sturdy boats. Grey/black mountains rise from the deep blue ocean high into the sky. At their feet there are small wooden fishing villages where cod dries on racks. Eagles circle above schools of herring, driven to the coast by killer whales. Otters on the rocks chew on the fish and crabs they just caught. The Norwegian archipelago the Lofoten, located above the Arctic Circle, is considered among the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. On this website photographer Eric Fokke shows why.

For hundreds of years, the Vestfjord, the water between mainland Norway and the Lofoten Islands, was the spawning hotspot for Barents Sea cod, the skrei. In recent years, fewer and fewer fish have been swimming into the fjord. Neveartheless, hundreds of fishermen from all over Norway still try their luck here in the winter. Now resting in the harbor of Henningsvaer.

Lofoten now