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(on the \V. bank) arc Lyngseidet (see below) and (on the E. bank) Dybvik
(telegraph-station), Langnæs in the Kaafjord. and Skibotten and Borsnæs
in the Storfjord, or S. prolongation of the Lvngenfjord.
Lyngseidet or Lyngen (good quarters ; telegraph-station), containing a
small church and the houses of the pastor, doctor, and Lensmand of the
district, is pleasantly situated in the midst of birch woods, and is admirably
adapted as a starting-point for excursions to the interesting and partly
unexplored mountains in the neighbourhood. — A very picturesque excursion,
taking 6-7 hrs., may be made to the S.W. to the mountain-basin enclosed
by the Goalsevarre (4150 ft.), the Rørnæstinder (about 4100 ft.), and the
Jer-lind (about 3600 ft.). — A fine excursion for one day is made by crossing
the Eid (200ft.) to Ejosen (p. 256), rowing to the (1 hr.) Fornæsdal, and
then ascending the valley on foot, crossing the old moraines, to the
Fornæsdal Glacier, which d’escends from the Golzetaggegaissa and is wedged
in between the Fornæstind and the Durmaalstind. — The following tour
occupies ll/2 day: On horseback to the S. to Pollen , and by rowing-boat
to Dalen, where somewhat primitive quarters can he procured for the
night; next day ascend, on foot, through the beautiful hut entirely
uninhabited Lyng’sdal, passing the Jæggevarre (6285 ft.) on the X.. to the
huge glacier descending from the main plateau (lower end 1300 ft. above
the sea). From the Lyngsdal we may also ascend the Njalavarre (5010 ft.)
to the S., or walk to the X. to the glaciers of the Ruksisvaggegaissa.
After traversing the Lyngenfjord (where Langnæs on the Kaafjord is
also called at once a fortnight) the steamer touches at Bavnces on the
S. extremity of the Ule, and steers through the Rotsund and the
Maur-sund, calling at the station of that name. It then passes Serkjos and
reaches the Skjærvø (see below).
Farther on it turns to the S.E. into the Kvenangfjord, at the mouth
of which rise the peaked Kvenang slind er. To the E. is the Jøkelfjeld, from
which a glacier descends to the Jøkelfjord. The steamer touches at the
island of Skorpen, at Strømnæs, and at Alteidet. whence a road leads to
(12 Kil.) the Langenfjord, an arm of the Altenfjord (steamer, see below).
In spring a herd of 5000-7000 reindeer is driven across the Alteid to the
peninsula of Alnas-Bjarg to the X. of the Eid, and some 2000 are conveyed
thence by boat to the Sljernø (p. 258). About the end of October these
last return to the mainland, to which they are made to swim (a distance
of 3 Engl. 31.). All these tame animals have the owner’s mark on their
ears, to facilitate the recognition of stragglers (Efterslandere), which
sometimes remain for weeks behind the m;>in herd. — From Alteidet the
steamer returns to Tromsø viå Nikkeby (on the Løgo), Kvitnæs, Karlsø,
Uelgø, and Alikkelrik (on the X. coast of the Ringvatsø).
The mail-steamer now traverses the Kaagsund , between the
Arne and the Kaage. To the X.E. of the latter is the small
island of —
42 Kil. (26 Engl. M.) <Skjærvø (telegraph-office); the station
lies in a bay on the E. side of the island. To the S. we obtain a
view of the picturesque Kvenang st inder on the Kvenangfjord (see
above). — The steamer’s course is now across the open sea, towards
the N., crossing the boundary of Tromsø Fogderi, to —
40 Kil. (25 Engl. M.) Loppen, the first station in the Atten
Fogderi, a small island exposed to the full sweep of the gales of the
Arctic Ocean. It possesses a small church and a turf-roofed
parsonage, a two-storied house to the left of which belongs to a
merchant. Almost the only vegetation in the place consists of a few
meagre patches of potatoes, nothing else being able to defy the
fury of the storms which sometimes prevail here for weeks
together. Ptarmigan (Ryper) abound. — The steamer next steers to
Baedeker’s Xorway and Sweden. 4th Edit. 17
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