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Far out to sea, west of Bodø and southwest of Lofotodden, is the Røst archipelago. The large cliff lined shore rises up from the sea, the landscape reminding us of its Lofoten origins. Røstlandet and the islands around are, however, completely flat and open and dominated by the merciless wind.
One of the first things you notice when you disembark the ferry is the significance of fish on Røst as marked by old and new fish landing facilities, stockfish lofts, fishermen’s’ cabins and fish drying racks. The island’s location and climate has made Røst into a stockfish production island.
50 paces up above the ferry key towers a fenced-in look-out post on which there is a board that marks places which are important to Røst. Lofotodden 48 km to the north east, Bergen 859 km to the south and Røst's twin municipality of Sandrigo in Italy 2432 km to the south, the bond of friendship marked by the naming of a square in the town 'Piazza Røst'.
Torghatten Nord ferry timetable: http://ruteinfo.thn.no/bm/default.aspx?rnr=82
Original text: from Elisabeth Johansen og John Roald Pettersen:
LOFOTEN en kulturminneguide, Orkana 2018.
Translation to English: Alasdair Graham-Brown