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Lindhavn Fjord
Deep water, low birch, and four hours of winter daylight.
Lindhavn is eighty kilometres of deep water with mountains standing directly out of it. There is no shelf and no shallows; the fjord is four hundred metres deep two boat-lengths from the shore, which is why the water is black rather than blue and why the whole place is so quiet.
The harbour at the mouth still lands fish six days a week. Our kitchen buys from the morning boats, which means the menu at Fyr is written after eight in the morning and printed after nine. Guests find this either delightful or inconvenient, and we have made our peace with both responses.
In December there are just under four hours between sunrise and sunset, and the sun never rises far. The result is a long horizontal light — pink, then blue, then nothing — that lasts most of the short day. In June there is no night at all. Both are worth seeing, and neither is a substitute for the other.
February and March for sea ice, clear air and the best chance of the aurora. June and July for light that does not end. September for the birch turning, which takes about ten days and is the reason half our returning guests come back.
The place, in short
When to come
February to March, June to July, and September
Getting there
Lindhavn regional airport, then 35 minutes by road along the northern shore. In February and March the last kilometre is driven on packed snow.
Experiences
Reservations
Our own team answers, not an agency. Rates fall on the fourth night and again on the seventh, which tells you what we would prefer.
