h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

While waiting for final acceptance into this fine crowd I've put together an entry on Norway.
Being by nature a megalomaniac I'd prefer to sneak it into the guide unchanged and unchallenged, but I'm going to supress my dislike of critisism and ask you all to read and comment.
I'll only pay attention to praise though.
Oh! It's A769908.

Sorry it took so long to answer you , but holiday got in the way....
It's a great article! But as a fellow Norwegian I am maybe not the most objective reader around.. Have you sent it to peer-review? If not, I think you should go ahead and do that!
Re. the monarchy: http://www.kongehuset.no/default.asp?lang=eng
may be a handy link.. (Lot of interest for that stuff among our German researchers )

Good !

I certainly second the suggestion to drop it into peer review (hint: if you want a scout with partial ties to the Nordic forum, Sir Bossel as far as I recall was at the 1st Nordic meet...).

You might want to take a look at A781346 as this also seems to be building into a serious entry on Norway...

Good writing

!

That researcher got Svalbard and the Jan Mayen Island, but there is also the Bouvet Island and Queen Mauds Land....
The Bouvet Island is particularly interesting now in these times of Internet, because it has it's own domain, namely .bv , witch is higly sought after by Dutch and Belgian companies...

I'll go ahead and submit it for peer review then.
Is the .bv domain available to anyone? I figured since the .no domain is so strictly governed and .bv is under the same authority you would have to have your corporate headquarters down on that piddling little uninhabited rock in the south seas to qualify.

Nope, the PTBs are sitting on it.
You go ahead and submit! There's a ever growing demand for an entry about old Mother Norway. Get the facts right!

And now it's in the Edited Guide, wheeee!

Congratulations and good work!

Hipp hipp!

Really I'm looking for some information. It's 30years since I was in Scandinavia and never actually saw the Northern Lights (aurora borialis) . I've promised my wife I'll try to take her for a cruise up the fiords and show her them before we are too old. Can somebody please tell me the best time to see them and advise on where (geographically) they can be seen best.
If this should by any chance tie in with a 'meet' then I'd like us both to attend and make new friends.

I believe that the best time should be the coldest time of the year. January for example. But then again, I am a bit more to south.

I would love to help you, but sadly I've lived in Norway all my life and never once seen the aurora borealis. I'd like to though

I think Titania from Sweden could help you. Let me see if I can attract her.

*attracted*

I'll just check the previous postings - one moment, please...

Colin - I've been asked about auroras before, so I think I'll just give you a link to a conversation I had with Kelli (I'm sure she won't mind):

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There was some confusion while a link I tried to give Kelli was moderated, but it's back now!

I saw my very first aurora over the southern suburbs of Stockholm - but that was a small one, in the middle of winter, freezing cold - and I've been told it's *very* unusual to see it so far south in Sweden...

...what struck me on my way home late in the evening was that the sky was unusually clear - clearer than I had ever seen it before, with much more stars visible than usual - the stars were the reason I stepped out on my balcony once I got home, to look at them some more - and tadaaa! An aurora!

Colin, I would recommend visiting http://www.spaceweather.com/
to learn more about auroras and how/when to spot them.
I don't know where you live, but on the Northern hemisphaere auroras have been spottet quite far South on occations. I live on the West coast of Norway, and have quite a good view to the West/North-West sky from my home. I have seen auroras at least five times since October 2002.

Some times auroras are hard to spot. It's easy to mistake them for thin clouds or haze. In most cities the light-pollution makes them impossible to see altogether. Find a place with little street/traffic-light, on a cloud free night, after sun-storm, and you should be able to see the Northern Lights.

Besides all that, if I should take only one voyage at sea in my life, this would be it. http://www.hurtigruten.com/uk/produkt.html

Thank you all for giving me so much information and advice on the Aurora Borealis. I can now search the web sites that you have given and see if we can budget for the trip in 2003-04 as I fear we cannot make the winter of 02-03. Your help and advice has been much appreciated.
Regards, Colin.

It has been a pleasure.