KS Norge seen from a Nordland boat in 2019.

In 2004, UNESCO inscribed the Vega Archipelago on the World Heritage List. In June 2019 the Vega Archipelago World Heritage Centre was officially opened.

I am honored that municipalities in Sør-Helgeland chose one of my pictures from Lifelines as a gift to Vega municipality in connection with the opening of the World Heritage Centre.

His Royal Highness The Crown Prince undertook the official opening of the Vega Archipelago World Heritage Centre. He arrived in the Vega fishing harbour on the Royal Yacht Norge.  In his speech, he says, among other things:

“Vegaøyan World Heritage is a tribute to the coastal people and the life of the fisherman farmer, where the women were farmers and bird watchers, and the men took care of the fisheries. It is a tribute to the invisible. Which are no longer invisible. Because the World Heritage Center helps to value them, to make their lives visible. For us, and for the whole world.”

My brother and I took a sailing trip that morning in his Nordland boat, a halvfemtrømming. When we passed the last islets from the Vega Islands, the slender royal ship revealed itself, KS Norge. A beautiful sight, and a memorable experience.

Here some pictures and a video from the voyage, KS Norge seen from a Nordland boat.