Norwegian Geography in Fiction
- In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, fjords were an award winning geographical feature created by Slartibartfast when he helped in the construction of Earth.
- In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, scenes from the ice planet Hoth were filmed at Finse, Norway.
- Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne in respectively "A Descent into the Maelström" and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea both portray Moskstraumen, a large system of tidal eddies and whirlpools in Lofoten.
- The car chase between James Bond and the villain in the James Bond film Die Another Day was shot in Svalbard.
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