The winter is dark, the sun does not appear at all during ten winter weeks. Conversely, during the summer it does not leave the horizon for ten hectic weeks.
People live on the coast, close to the sea, in approximately ten small, scattered settlements.
Some of the settlements are connected by road, but many can only be reached by sea. The landscape is barren with mountains and glaciers, but still, people have lived in Loppa for several thousand years. The Golf Stream secures a reasonably mild climate, and the sea has always provided the daily sustenance for Loppa's inhabitants, as it does today. The size of the population in Loppa has varied. After a period of steady increase up to 1965, the population decreased.