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Low pass Sola airport Stavanger Norway ENZV/SVG on its last flight from Yellowknife Canada to Norway 02.06.2020

I'm looking at this photo and I am wondering if I can use Google Maps to verify this location, so I took a look.

Sola airport Stavanger Norway
The North-South runway is the straight, vertical, gray line near the bottom center of the image.

There are two runways here. There is nothing to the West until you get to Scotland and the Orkney Islands, 200 miles away, so they aren't using the East-West runway. There is water off the North end of the North-South runway, and there is land out there, but it is a couple of miles away. The land in the above photo looks a lot closer than that. So I inquired, and Gavin Hughes was kind enough to respond:

Hi Chuck, the houses are over 4 km from the threshold, and judging only from what appears to be the photographer's position, over 7 km away. With a long tele lens the distance is compressed making the background look closer. My guess is the shot may have been taken with at least a 400 mm lens, quite possibly even longer.

Okay, a giant telephoto lens was employed to make this photo.

Thomas Waerner celebrates his return to Norway on Tuesday after a 20-hour flight from Fairbanks on a historic DC-6 cargo plane. (Photo provided by QRILL Paws)

While I am rooting around I discover that Thomas Waerner and his dogs, the winners of this years Iditarod, flew home on this airplane. They were stranded in Alaska for months due to the COVID-19 panic.

Thomas Waerner drives his dog team into Unalakleet on Sunday, March 15, 2020. Waerner is the first team to the coast during the Iditarod. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Because dogs.