Mosken Island Outside Lofoten
by Hans Egil Saele
Title
Mosken Island Outside Lofoten
Artist
Hans Egil Saele
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Seascape with a view to Mosken Island outside Lofoten archipelago in Norway.
Moskstraumen, or Moskenstraumen, is one of the most powerful maelstroms in the world, and is mentioned by among others Jules Verne in his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In the novel Captein Nemo in his ship Nautilus ends up in Moskstraumen.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote about the malstroem in Lofoten in his novel Descent Into the Maelstroem.
Moskstraumen is also mentioned by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Winner of FAA contest EXQUISITE LANDSCAPES
May 2019.
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