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people on a snowy beach in the Lofoten Islands
May 2, 2016

Arctic Surf

Surfers wait for the perfect icy swell at this seemingly unlikely surfing spot: Unstad Beach in Norway’s Lofoten Islands, captured in this image by Konsta Linkola. “We were hit by a blizzard as we were approaching the beach,” Linkola writes, “which made the surfing more extreme.”

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Photograph by Konsta Linkola, National Geographic Your Shot

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