Hurtigruten, minute by minute

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Be onboard Hurtigruten MS Nordnorge right now, from your own PC!

 

Norwegian Public Service broadcaster NRK will be transmitting the 134 hour boat trip from Bergen to Kirkenes live and non stop, starting Thursday June 16th at 19:45 CET. And you can catch it in the comfort of your own home, either live or via BitTorrent-fueled download. Because we’ll be making everything available with a Creative Commons license. And you can win stuff! More on that shortly.

Lo-o-o-ong

 

134 hours of television, that must be a Guinness World Record? Well, no, it can’t compete with the 8,763 hours of a Big Brother show. But it’s still pretty long and close to double the world record for uninterrupted TV watching, so this show should be prime material to set your own world records

Here’s a quick taster; the TV promo:

The live stream is available at nrk.no/hurtigruten from Thursday June 16th 2011 until the ship lands in Kirkenes Wednesday June 22nd. Info on how to download etc. can be found there as well.

8040 minutes of sea and arctic nature

 

Hurtigruten, the Norwegian Express Line, has for well over 100 years been the backbone of coastal Norway, bringing people and goods up and down the weatherbeaten west coast towards the north of Norway. A fleet of 11 ships service 34 ports from Bergen to Kirkenes, covering a distance comparable to the distance Oslo – Tunisia. Daily, and all year round, regardless of weather. In its heyday, this earned the line its nickname National Highway 1.

 

 

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Source: NRKbeta.no http://nrkbeta.no/2011/06/16/hurtigruten-eng/