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North Cape, or rather Nordkyn, was called then Murmunski Nos (the Norman Cape).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nordkyn, living among the Lapps, and later going in a fishing-boat off the coast of Finmarken for cod.
A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold
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North Cape and Nordkyn the sun disappears November 18th, and is not seen again till January 24th.
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This "Land of the Long Night" commences at Nordkyn, or the most northern point of the continent of Europe, -- or at North Cape, but five miles distant -- on the 16th of November.
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I had to travel nearly nine hundred miles before I could reach Nordkyn.
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The people asked me whither I was bound, and I told them that I was going as far north as the Arctic Ocean, as far as Nordkyn.
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Nordkyn being the land's end, I could not go further north, so I retraced my steps southward.
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Utsjoki I met some nomadic Lapps, who had a large herd of reindeer with them, and were willing to take me to Nordkyn.
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Midway between Nordkyn and Haparanda the snow was of great depth.
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I was now in latitude 69° 35 ', and within a few miles of the longitude of Nordkyn.
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