Boatmen at Trollfjord, Östvågöy, Lofoten Islands
Among her extensive travels at home and abroad in the 1920s the Scottish explorer-botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison visited the mountainous Lofoten Islands, within the Arctic Circle off the north-western coast of Norway, from whose inner island-group of Vesterålen they are separated by a narrow stretch of water called the Raftsund. On the largest island of Östvågöy, the Trollfjord, with its vertical rock walls, is arguably the wildest fjord in the whole of Norway: little wonder it was named as the home of such supernatural creatures as the Trolls. Hutchison visited this remote area in the motor-boat in this photograph on a three-hour voyage from Digermulen at the southernmost tip of the Vesterålen island of Hinnöy.
