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it is above the horizon between 5 ½ and 6 hours; in Mandal 6 ½
hours, to which must be added the lengthening of the day produced
by the twilight. At the equinoxes in spring and autumn, day and
night in Norway are, of course, as everywhere else in the world,
of equal length.
In Norway, the Mid-European-time is used as the common time
for the whole country.
Along the coast of Norway flows the mighty Gulf Stream
from SW to NE, filling the innumerable bays and fjords with the
warm surface-water of the Atlantic. The fjords themselves have
a depth of up to 650 fathoms, but a submarine bank outside the
shore protects them from the in-pouring of ice-cold volumes of
water from the great ocean depths. For this reason the fjords
do not freeze, but are navigable all the year round.
The land generally, rises perpendicularly from the coast up
into high mountain-tops and wide plateaus, and in places reaches
up into the regions of perpetual snow, whence glaciers descend
into the neighbouring valleys.
The snow-line, in the southern portion of the country, lies,
between 60° and 62 ½° N. Lat., at an average height above the
sea of about 4600 or 4900 feet; within the polar circle, at 66 ½°
N. Lat., at a height of about 3900 feet, and in Finmarken, at 70°
or 71° N. Lat, [[** sic, punktum mgl]] at about 3000 feet.
An account of the climatic conditions ot Norway, which are,
of course, closely connected with the geographical situation, the
form and the whole natural character of the country, falls most
naturally into three sections, according to Nature’s own division
of the country, viz. south eastern Norway (Norway SE), western
(Norway West), and northern Norway (Norway North).
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