The North Cape in 6 days

A cliff dropping 307 metres into the Barents Sea, marked by a metal globe since 1978; visitors have been climbing up here since 1664.

A rocky point 1,450 metres further north than the plateau, reached by a 9 km trail each way marked with cairns across the tundra.

A fishing village in a sheltered bay, where a 1 km path climbs to Kirkeporten, a rock arch that frames the cape.

A fishing hamlet of about 100 people on Magerøya's east coast, with colourful houses around a tiny harbour where cod and crab are still landed.

Haul pots of red king crab, a species the Soviets introduced in the 1960s, by boat from Honningsvåg, then eat the catch on the quay.

The island's port, burnt by the retreating German army in 1944; only the 1885 church survived, sheltering the first residents to return.

A boat trip from Gjesvær along three steep islets in a nature reserve, home in summer to puffins, gannets, guillemots, kittiwakes and hunting white-tailed eagles.

From Olderfjord the road follows the west shore of one of Norway's longest fjords, past tundra, pebble beaches, Sami hamlets and reindeer on the tarmac.