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Postcard North Cape Plateau Norway Dirt Road Vintage Car Chrome Aune c1960s
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Postcard North Cape Plateau Norway Dirt Road Vintage Car Chrome Aune c1960s

Nordkapp (North Cape), Norway1962ChromeGood

A lone dark sedan — likely a late-1950s European saloon — trails a thin plume of dust down an impossibly straight dirt track across the treeless tundra plateau of Nordkapp, the bleak, wind-scoured roof of Europe where the Norwegian Arctic meets the Barents Sea. The mesa cliffs of the North Cape itself are just visible as dark silhouettes on the horizon, and the sky is enormous, pale, and indifferent. This is the road to the edge of the world, and the unnamed traveller in that little car is doing something that only a handful of adventurers attempted in the early 1960s — driving all the way to Nordkapp before the road was fully paved. Published by Knut Aune Kunstforlag (Series F-1591-3, Utsikt mot Nordkapp-platået og Hornet / View towards the North Cape plateau), this ultra card carries the "Et ekte Aune kort" mark and a pencilled "25" retail notation, placing it firmly in mid-century Scandinavian tourism.

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