Norwegian island’s serious-but-not-literal ‘time-free zone’ bid generates more attention than expected
Sommerøya still wants to be the island that forgot time, but, for now, it is the island that duped the press.
July 9, 2019
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It sounded too good to be true. And, in fact, it was: Sommerøya, a Norwegian island north of the Arctic Circle, will not, as was reported in scores of articles in June, be abolishing time.
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