Anyone planning a Northern Lights hunt in Norway needs to know their geography. Oslo, the capital of this long and thin country, is too far south of the Arctic Circle to see the aurora borealis.

The aurora borealis has jumped to the top of many travelers' wish lists, creating a tourism boom in the northernmost reaches of our planet. This writer found a unique experience in northern Norway.

I’d imagined the northern lights as a glowing portion of the sky, almost like seeing a colorful faraway cloud, or a sunset that lights up a piece of the horizon. Instead, the entire sky was full ...

Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs, Or midnight’s silent glowing northern lights unreachable. So wrote Walt Whitman in A Riddle Song, a poem about ...