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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/Norway#Northern Norway (Nord-Norge/Nord-Noreg)
•  Info created & uploaded by Ximonic - nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 21:34, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 21:34, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Thi (talk) 23:29, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support ★ 13:07, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Painterly. --Aristeas (talk) 19:30, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support JukoFF (talk) 00:28, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Neutral Good technical quality but leaning to oppose as the image description does not describe the significance of the image. It appears to be an outflow into Kvenika Bay, Norway. Is the white stuff in the plume area silica and the orange related to iron tracings? What am I looking at? --GRDN711 (talk) 03:06, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Agree that a description explaining the colours would be very welcome. --Aristeas (talk) 10:18, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
• Since this is taken in autumn, the yellow-brownish stuff is probably just dead plant material. A mix of leaves and algae on the white sand of the bay, brown when wet and getting yellow as it dries. My fjords look about the same that time of the year. The Google maps photo is taken in winter and it shows no color, which would not be the case if the color was mineral-related. Also, this photo was taken when the tide was out or the water level was low, so probably most algae. --Cart (talk) 12:04, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

• I have no expertise in marine life, but it's quite highly likely Fucus vesiculosus known as rock weed, which is very common and widely found. I didn't have a close look at it in this place, but have seen such yellow weed elsewhere. The way they are lined up suggests, the yellow materia has accumulated by the tides instead of having come down from the river. I don't believe it has anything to do with iron deposits or such. The white is just sand. I will write this on description, but it means that I cannot also be 100% sure of what everything is. Thank you! --Ximonic (talk) 11:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

• Thank you, Cart and Ximonic, for the explanation! --Aristeas (talk) 15:35, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
• Good explanation. Now  Support. --GRDN711 (talk) 02:26, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Support Another top-notch photo from Ximonic. --SHB2000 (talk) 12:38, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support not just a high quality drone photo but a satisfying composition too Cmao20 (talk) 02:23, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 15:26, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Wieggy (talk) 18:07, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay 💬 07:46, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 18:03, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Meiræ 22:32, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 05:04, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural/Norway#Northern Norway (Nord-Norge/Nord-Noreg)