Seven countries that connect
Iceland is four fifths of this site; the others are here because a ferry, a flight or a comparison ties them to it.
ISLIcelandThe site's main country: one ring road, 1,309 km, a weekly ferry from Denmark via the Faroes, flights from every Nordic capital, and roads that open…9 journeysFROFaroe IslandsEighteen islands between Iceland and Norway, joined by bridges and tolled sub-sea tunnels; reached by air at Vágar or by the Norröna ferry, and the…1 journeyNORNorwayThe fjords are the alternative to an Iceland week and the Troms coast the alternative for the aurora; reached by air from Iceland, by ferry from…3 journeysFINFinlandFinnish Lapland is the inland, cold, clear-sky alternative to Iceland for the aurora: Rovaniemi, Levi and the E8 to Norway, on winter roads that are…1 journeySWESwedenOn this site Sweden is the land link: the Øresund bridge from Copenhagen, the E8 border with Finland, and the Kiruna–Abisko line that is the…1 journeyDNKDenmarkThe hub of the North: Copenhagen is the air gateway to the Faroes and Greenland, Hirtshals is the port for the Norröna to Tórshavn and Seyðisfjörður,…2 journeysGRLGreenlandNo roads between towns: Greenland is reached from Keflavík or Copenhagen by air and crossed by air and sea. Here it is a five-day add-on to an…1 journey