Hurrigruten Otto Sverdrup Hamburg-North Cape-Hamburg January 20, 2022

Today we arrive in Narvik in the early afternoon. We take a longer hike through the beautifully snow-covered landscape around the Ofotfjord. Narvik is a Norwegian city north of the Arctic Circle with a population of 21,530. Narvik is also the name of a municipality, whose main town is Narvik. Narvik is located on the Ofotfjord and is an important port for shipping iron ore from the Kiruna area in Sweden. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, the port is ice-free all year round. The town was built after the construction of the Ofotbanen, which allowed for greater use of the iron ore deposits in Kiruna.