Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district
in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the
archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature
anomalies relative to its high latitude. Lofoten
(Norse Lofot) was originally
the old name of the island Vestvagoya. The first element is ló (i.e., "lynx") and
the last element is derived from Norse fotr
(i.e., "foot"), as the shape of the island must have been
compared with a foot of a lynx. (The old name of the neighbouring island Flakstadoya
was Vargfot, "the foot of
a wolf", from vargr
"wolf". See also Ofoten.) Source
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