1. Scandinavia

3. Nordic Europe and Mediterranean Europe are peripheral to the European Core. Although they differ from each other, each has physical and cultural homogeneity. Each region’s position outside the core provides an interesting comparison among the three regions, North, South, and Core.

6. Winter view of Iceland’s snow and fjörds Summer view of this peninsula in next slide

7. Clockwise: columnar basalts, glaciers and fjörds, geyser--fire and ice on Iceland.

8. Viking Iceland

9. Bergen, Norway, note common walls

10. Modern Copenhagen

11. Gullhomen, Sweden

12. One of many Nordic fjörds, inundated glacial valleys

13. Viking Long Boat