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North Cape
The North Cape
In 1873 King Oskar II, the king of both Norway and Sweden at the time, visited the North Cape which was just the kind of boost the area needed. The first tour boat had arrived a few decades earlier but the king’s visit, along with Hurtigruten, the coastal ferry from Bergen that started in the 1890s, is what made the North Cape suddenly popular. It also helps that the plateau now has easy access by car or bus from the ports of Honningsvåg or Skarsvåg. More than 250,000 people visit the cape every year, most of them foreign tourists.
The North Cape was discovered by the English explorer Richard Chancellor in the 16th century. Chancellor was trying to find the northern passage to China but instead ensured himself a place in the history books as the man who gave the North Cape its name. One of the first “tourists” at the North Cape was an Italian priest named Francesco Negri, who was mesmerized by the scenery and claimed he was standing at the end of the world. Negri, and other visitors at the North Cape in the early years, had to climb up the steep cliff from the north side to reach the top and it would take several centuries before tourists started coming here in busloads (and boatloads).
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