The Lofoten wall beyond the Yest Fjord is especially famons, bnt
there is hardly any place where a more majestic panorama can
be seen than the wild gabbro mountains of Lyngen in the glow
of the midnight son, splendidly developed Alpine forms rising to a
height of 6000 feet straight from the broad fjord, that opens onto the
Arctic Ocean in the north. The contrast to the undulating, faintly
glacier-scored plateau-land of east Finmarken, with its escarpment
towards the ocean (e. g. at the North Cape), is exceedingly striking.
Lyngen.
In Lyngen, Lofoten and several other places along the coast, as
in the Jotunheimen, the «&oiw»-glaciers are at work to this day, but
at a greater height above the sea, above the present snow-limit.
About 200 sq. miles of the country are covered with perpetual snow
and iee. The greater part of this, however, is not cirque-glaciers, but
plateau-glaciers that lie like a cloak over the surface of the mountain,
e. g. the Jostedalsbrae in Sogn (350 sq. miles with adjoining snow
fields 585 sq. miles)-, Folgefon in Hardanger, Svartisen in Nordland.
The marks that the glaciers have engraved on the Norwegian
rock are thus deep and varied. We see the Alpine forms lifting