Queen Sonja
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Queen Sonja of Norway has for many years been the patron of the organisation the Norwegian Trekking Association. She is known as the trekking Queen and there is hardly a mountain top in Norway that she hasn’t visited. Indeed, the Geiranger fjord, villages, and mountains around are amongst the Queen and her family’s most visited destinations. In 1993 the King and Queen even celebrated their silver wedding anniversary here in Geiranger fjord, at the mountain farm Skagaflå, with royal guests from around the whole world. The guests, including 7 Queens, also took a trip through the beautiful Norangsdalen, which is now known by the nickname the ‘Queens’ route’. The Queen who is an art and outdoor enthusiast unveiled the design installation «Fjordsetet» in 2003 on one of her trips to Geiranger. In Oslo a sculpture of the Queen entitled “The Trekking Queen” was unveiled in 2017.