Scandinavia

Nordic Europe and Mediterranean Europe are peripheral to the European Core. Although they differ from each other, each has physical and cultural homogeneity.

Each region’s position outside the core provides an interesting comparison among the three regions, North, South, and Core.

Winter view of Iceland’s snow and fjörds

Summer view of this peninsula in next slide

Clockwise: columnar basalts, glaciers and fjörds, geyser--fire

and ice on Iceland.

Viking Iceland

Bergen, Norway, note common walls

Modern Copenhagen

Gullhomen, Sweden

One of many Nordic fjörds, inundated glacial valleys

Viking Long Boat