In the morning the weather is no better, but with the wind dropping in the evening the Italia crew decide it is time to press north. They leave Vadsø at about 8.30 pm, now bound for Spitsbergen.
links to North Cyprus, the Faroe islands, the Azores and Svalbard
One travel guide claims that Finisterre is the most westerly point on the European mainland. This is in fact wrong, just as other points that lay claim to special status as geographical extremities are often spurious. We map Europe's extremities.
We were intrigued to read a recent account in an English newspaper of a journey along "he most northerly railway in the world". The Ofoten railway from Kiruna in Sweden to Narvik in Norway is without doubt one of the most remarkable train journeys anywhere in Europe - but it surely is not the most northerly rail route in the world.