Curious places in Norway

The tongue-shaped ledge was exposed when glaciers melted 10,000 years ago. Stress analysis shows the cantilever is stable despite appearing impossibly thin.

An underwater landslide off Norway 8,200 years ago sent a 25-meter tsunami crashing into Scotland. This may have drowned Doggerland's last survivors. What triggered the slide - earthquake, gas hydrate release, or sediment overload - is still debated.

A 40-year survey spanning 10 countries and 2,820km definitively proved that Earth bulges at the equator. Using only theodolites and human endurance.

The 100-meter-wide entrance guards a 2km fjord. Bathymetric surveys reveal a submerged sill that once blocked the valley, carved through as glaciers retreated.

This tiny tunicate builds elaborate disposable houses from mucus every 4 hours. The house filters food particles, and when clogged, the animal abandons it and builds a new one. Marine snow that sequesters carbon to the deep ocean.

These tiny swimming snails with wing-like appendages are a important food source for Arctic whales. Their fragile aragonite shells are dissolving due to ocean acidification, making them a living indicator of climate change impacts.

lichens are not single organisms; partnerships between fungi and algae/cyanobacteria. They survived all five mass extinctions and can colonize bare rock, breaking it down into soil. Some Antarctic lichens are over 5,000 years old.

This Norwegian facility fires sounding rockets directly into the Aurora Borealis. The only way to take physical measurements inside the dancing lights, since aircraft can't fly that high.

The world's northernmost weather station where scientists study katabatic winds. Coldair that flows downhill from glaciers like an invisible river.

Automated sensors recording unexplained lights show temperature changes and electromagnetic signatures inconsistent with known phenomena. Data continues to accumulate.

Glowing orbs appear in this Norwegian valley up to 20 times per week, hovering, pulsing, and shooting across the sky. Scientists have studied them since 1981 but can't fully explain them. The main theory is that the valley's geology creates a natural battery effect.

Near an underwater hydrothermal vent field called Loki's Castle between Greenland and Norway, researchers found a new group of archaea whose genomes contained proteins previously thought exclusive to complex life. Named the Asgard Archaea, including Lokiarchaeota, Thorarchaeota, and Heimdallarchaeota, they suggest that all complex life, every animal, plant, fungus, and you, may have evolved from within these ancient microbes, meaning the tree of life may have only two domains, not three.

A 10,000-ton block is separated by a crack. Extensometer monitoring shows the gap widens 1mm per year, but geologists estimate centuries remain before potential collapse.

An 8,000-year-old underwater landslide that triggered a tsunami reaching Scotland. The scar is still visible on sonar. A warning of future collapses.

Neurons that fire in perfect hexagonal patterns as you move through space. Discovered here; winning the Nobel Prize. Revealing the brain's built-in GPS coordinate system.

Built to safeguard agriculture through any catastrophe, the 'failsafe' Arctic seed vault started flooding in 2017 as permafrost melted - a victim of the very climate disaster it was designed to survive.

Sediment cores here record when the Arctic was a swamp. Crocodiles lived at the pole 56 million years ago during the fastest natural warming event known.