Island · a Vonda Wanderlist
Ferry required.
1,643 places for island travel, gathered from every corner of the map.
Islands enforce their own pace. The boat leaves when it leaves, the shop closes when it closes, and within a day your pulse has adjusted to both.
This collection favours the islands where arrival still feels like a decision: bird cliffs at the end of a swell-prone crossing, fishing archipelagos strung on one road, ice islands with more dogs than people.
via Wikimedia CommonsFirst stop
Kalsoy, the flute of the Faroes
Long, thin, and pierced by single-lane tunnels, with a lighthouse walk at the north end that ends in cliff, sea and — the Faroese insist — a seal woman's legend. The ferry is small; the payoff is not.
✦ May–September · $$ · Kalsoy, Faroe Islands
Chapter I
Lofoten's front row
Fishing villages threaded on the E10 like beads: red cabins, drying racks, granite spires straight out of the sea. Winter brings the lights, summer never brings the night.
Chapter II
The far tickets
Islands that make you commit: volcanic archipelagos, iceberg coasts, Baltic outposts with their own flags and firmer opinions.
Every place in this Wanderlist
7 places, no itinerary.
Kalsoy
Kalsoy, Faroe Islands
✦ May–September · $$
Reine, Norway
Nordland, Norway
✦ February to March for aurora; June to August for midnight sun · $$
Henningsvær
Nordland, Norway
✦ February to March for aurora; June to August for midnight sun · $$
Svolvær
Nordland, Norway
✦ February to March for aurora; June to August for midnight sun · $$
Westman Islands
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ May–August · $$
Disko Island
Qeqertalik, Greenland
✦ June–August · $$$
Gotland
Gotland County, Sweden
✦ June to August · $$