Search results for "Norwegian Sea" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A fjord (or fiord) is a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea bordered ... the climate warms and glaciers retreat. Sea level rises due to an influx ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian ... in the nation's literature, though Norwegian-born writers such as Peder ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- #039;s paintings, such as Wanderer above the Sea of Fog expressed the feeling ... His famous Romantic painting The Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog impressed ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- off the east coast of North America and in the North Sea. ... to the Arctic Ocean, including the North Sea, areas around Iceland and ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige) (994/995 ... 000 men. This time, he was joined by his Norwegian brother-in-law Eiríkr ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- minimize the by-catch. Preservation of the sea bed, including the spawning ... is towing the trawl along or close to the sea floor. Bottom trawling can ...14 KB (2,235 words) - 14:52, 2 May 2023
- *Svalbard (under Norwegian sovereignty since 1920) Estonia has applied ... is extremely varied. Notable are the Norwegian fjords, the Scandinavian ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... The sea's western coast runs the length of Italy, while the eastern ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- Scotland (Margrete av Scotland), was a Norwegian–Scottish princess who ... This rebellion was soon suppressed, and a Norwegian ambassador came to Scotland ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- be seen in terms such as sjötrollet (the sea troll) as a synonym for havsmannen ... Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer of the later nineteenth century ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- 16, 1872 – ca. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions ... Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- skating, and even cross-country skiing possible on sea-ice. ... the main cause of the depopulation of the Norwegian countryside, any form of ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- group of islands in Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly equidistant between Iceland, Scotland, and Norway ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- flows through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria. The Blue Nile ... Mark Tanner reached the Mediterranean Sea after an epic 148 day journey ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- historical text detailing the history of Norwegian kingship), Njord's ... to that end, represented the bounty of the sea (and, to a lesser extent, ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice. This makes it impossible ... Hall, ended in disaster. In April 1895 Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen reached ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen: Norwegian sovereignty of Svalbard ... and south, Norway is bordered by the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, and Skagerak ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- (as an offering to Tangaroa, god of the sea). Another longstanding example ... Holt, published a seminal work on North Sea commercial species fisheries ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- Margaret Valdemarsdatter (Norwegian: Margrete Valdemarsdotter) (1353 ... its assistance; and the Baltic and the North Sea speedily swarmed with the ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea. ... when they first came sailing across the sea "from a mountainous land ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- as well as the Nordic ones: nyker in Old Norwegian, nykur in Icelandic, nok ... belief structures, and therefore the supreme sea goddess was demoted to a supernatural ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- up the tree (and surrounded by an impassable sea), and the underworld nestled ... Given that the river Tanaquisl was understood to flow into the Black ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. Bert Rudels, The Physical Oceanography ... Baffin Bay, the Norwegian Sea, and Hudson Strait. === Islands === ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- of Aegir (the personification of the sea). Lindow, 169. ... the scene of his birth made him, in the sea's white frothing, the ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- the Denmark Strait, Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea. To ... bays, gulfs, and seas. These include Norwegian Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- a member of Otto Sverdrup's 2nd Norwegian Polar Expedition. ... and land mammals make the Island their home, sea ice discourages marine mammals ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- York and Dublin rose and fell. Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough ... a mighty empire stretching across the North Sea. It was probably in this period ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect ... opens in a widening funnel shape to the Norwegian Sea, which lies in the very ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- The first part, All Rivers Run in to the Sea, appeared in 1995, and the ... and racism. In their determination, The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- gull species are often referred to as sea gulls or seagulls. This name ... inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea. The kittiwakes, which comprise ...12 KB (1,696 words) - 04:38, 7 December 2021
- he died. He signed it at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on November ... of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting. It is my express ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- to show the evolution of traditional Norwegian building types since the ... Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea, in Mystic, Connecticut, U ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- about 800 miles (1,287 km) from the nearest sea at McMurdo Sound. The ice ... The first humans to reach the geographic South Pole were Norwegian ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had ... ====="The Madness From the Sea"===== In the third part of ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- the English king Alfred the Great and the Norwegian warlord Guthrum the Old ... ruled by Canute the Great as part of a North Sea Danish Empire. In 1066, two ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- passed through what is now known as the Ross Sea and discovered Ross Island ... On December 14, 1911, a party led by Norwegian polar explorer Roald ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- as precipitation, evaporation, melting of sea ice, and river inflow. ... Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic). The Pacific ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea coast, is a city of over 200 ... and one unit of 45 MW (with the ability of sea water desalination). ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that Norwegian-born Erik the Red was exiled ... The Atlantic Ocean borders Greenland's southeast; the Greenland ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- Dick and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to modern animated television ... but indirect evidence suggests a deep-sea habitat (Roper 1998). ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- right|A statue of Snorri Sturluson by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland ... of a dialogue between the Norse god of the sea, Ægir, and Bragi, the god ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren ... In Scandinavia, cairns have been used for centuries as trail and sea ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- from the eastern coast of the Baltic sea were first mentioned in the ... however, were descended from Danes, Norwegian (in Norwegian they are ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- 2005, the Finnmark Law was passed in the Norwegian parliament. This law gives ... as the Beja of the African Coast of the Red Sea. It is difficult to determine ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical center ... mainland Europe, and is located in the Irish Sea, approximately equidistant ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- is linked by the Westerschelde to the North Sea 55 miles (88 km) to its north ... is linked by the Westerschelde to the North Sea 55 miles (88 kilometers) away ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- is rather inaccessible both by land and by sea, but in another land-point ... Tierra del Fuego was an island with open sea to its south. This discovery ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- the organisms of the affected ecosystem (sea, lake, river). Non-indigenous ... left|200px|Ethical husbandry. A wounded Norwegian reindeer is moved on a ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2023
- and the population to the east of the Dead Sea. Both Muslim and Christian ... Under an Agreement dated May 9, 1996, the Norwegian personnel arrived and commenced ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- tons annually, most of this from the Scotia Sea. Most krill is used for aquaculture ... The name krill comes from the Norwegian word krill meaning “young ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- in most cases recover, aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers ... As "runways at sea," modern aircraft carriers have a flat ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- exogamous marriage that was common among the sea-faring Norsemen. ... of Magnus Olsen; translated from the Norwegian by Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- The limestone under Miami formed as the result of drastic changes ... ship port, and is the headquarters of Norwegian Cruise Lines, Celebrity ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- *Jörmungandr, the sea serpent (destined to slay Thor at Ragnarök); ... of Magnus Olsen; translated from the Norwegian by Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- *1913: Boy Scouts Beyond The Sea: My World Tour *1916: The Wolf Cub ... Peace Prize for the year 1939, but the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- a fast ferry service across the Irish sea. The [[High-speed Sea Service ... for all high speed connections along the Norwegian coast. They could achieve ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 17:50, 30 November 2023
- May 2008, Nelson appeared on a duet with Norwegian pop star and former World ... | Island in the Sea |align="center"|14 |align="center"| ...49 KB (6,754 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- the modern towns of Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea. The Bulverhythe beachhead ... who had recently destroyed an invading Norwegian Viking army under King ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- title=Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 ... airbase in Murmansk Oblast, close to the Norwegian border, where terrible ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- of each clan would dive into the sea and swim across to Motu Nui ... A French sea captain who brought the two French missionaries to the ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- his ship Hringhorni, which was then launched out to sea. ... The appearance of Ullr's name in numerous Danish, Norwegian, ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- 874 when, according to Landnámabók, the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson ... end of the ice age, walking over the frozen sea. There are no native reptiles ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- Borlaug was the great-grandchild of Norwegian immigrants to the United ... of Guadalcanal, and patrolled the sky and sea by day. The only way that ...46 KB (6,869 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2023
- In 1913, Norwegian explorer and physicist Kristian Birkeland may have ... In 1930 Paul Dirac proposed a model of vacuum as an infinite sea of ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- available to women were radar operator, sea-control person, and C3 person ... Between 1977 and 1984, the Norwegian Parliament passed laws expanding ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- even found in brackish water of the Baltic Sea. However pike are confined ... gädda, the Danish "gedde", the Norwegian "gjedde" and ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- Gulf of California, also known as the "Sea of Cortez," where they ... for his literary contributions to the Norwegian resistance movement. ...27 KB (4,116 words) - 07:52, 3 August 2022
- Harney Peak (7,242 ft or 2,207 m above sea level), is in the Black Hills ... The five largest ancestry groups in South Dakota are: German, Norwegian ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- straits in the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia in the ... Sweden is bounded on the east by the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia, providing ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- impacts, and nuclear weapons testing at sea all have the potential to ... they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- the courses of the stars, the tides of the sea, and legendary fountains, ... version is that by an Icelandic or Norwegian author writing in Norway ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- improvised. The isles were not fortified, sea mines were not deployed at ... carrying only 20 Fleet Air Arm (FAA) Sea Harriers between them for ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ... of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea between southern Sweden and ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- * Artemisia maritima L. – Sea Wormwood * Artemisia marschalliana Spreng. ... * Artemisia norvegica Fries – Norwegian Mugwort * Artemisia nova ...26 KB (3,665 words) - 12:12, 7 November 2021
- but with repeated incursions of the sea, leaving behind multiple strata ... largest reported ancestries being German, Norwegian), Irish, and Swedish. The ...43 KB (5,977 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- with Constantinople and ports on the Black Sea. During 1348, the disease ... displaced and succeeded by the bigger Norwegian, or brown, rat (Rattus ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- surroundings, 2660 feet (818 meters) above sea level and covers an area of ... Foundation in conjunction with the Royal Norwegian Embassy. ...24 KB (3,894 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- 4, 1952) was a German psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch descent. Although ... he bought her gifts and even took her for sea voyages on his boat. Karen ...26 KB (3,913 words) - 16:28, 15 November 2023
- located at 6,230 feet (1,899 m) above sea level and surrounded by mountains ... (13.3 percent), American (6.5 percent), Norwegian (4.3 percent), Swedish ...36 KB (5,337 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- Operation Active Endeavour is a naval operation in the Mediterranean ... Norway (in the same site as the Norwegian NJHQ); the Joint Force ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- attempted to exploit the brief peace at sea to restore the colonial rule ... the opportunity to challenge the British at sea. By this time, however, Napoleon ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Beginning in 1792, Gray established trade in sea otter pelts. The Lewis and ... (12 percent), Irish (11.4 percent), Norwegian (6.2 percent), Mexican ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- When the first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901, the Norwegian ... League of Nations, which appointed the Norwegian diplomat and scientist ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- were superseded as the deciding factor at sea by aircraft carriers. The ... from the cogs which traded in the North Sea and Baltic, had an advantage ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- North Dakota are: German (43.9 percent), Norwegian (30.1 percent), Irish ... * Silverman, Robin L. From Sea to Shining Sea: North Dakota. Children ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal ... Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- to a "sister" republic across the sea served as a focus for the ... that the evidence argued strongly for a Norwegian origin of the copper. ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- one- or two-man vessels that can examine the sea floor for a few hours to the ... an adjective meaning "under the sea." Some firms who make ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. It is separated from the ... Sri Lankan government and LTTE signed a Norwegian-mediated ceasefire agreement. ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- and social development from below."The Norwegian Nobel Committee, [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/press.html "The ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- this, they are commonly referred to as "sea scorpions" (Waggoner ... flavicaudis.] The Scorpion Files. Norwegian University of Science and ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- of iron ore supplies from Sweden through Norwegian coastal waters. British ... much of the Baltic territories spanning to the Black Sea. ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- bounded also by the Bering Strait and Bering Sea on the West and the Pacific ... object toward which the action of the sea is directed." ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- interrupt economic relations as well as sea, air, postal, and radio communications ... City. The chamber was designed by the Norwegian architect Arnstein Arneberg ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- record, on the Rubber Soul track "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown ... Charles Manson murder case), "Sour Milk Sea," "Long, Long, Long ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- most of Norway, and what remained of the Norwegian Army had surrendered. ... summer of 1940 to invade Britain (Operation Sea Lion), while Britain made ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- Lake Sammamish and the Cascade Range. The sea, rivers, forests, lakes, and ... mild, with the temperature moderated by the sea and protected from winds and ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- 80 mountain ranges, and at 5,000 feet above sea level, is the fifth highest ... (10 percent), American (8.4 percent), Norwegian (3.6 percent), Swedish ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- - Project Gutenberg eText 12536.png|200px|A Sea-Change. Tory chorus (to Winston ... quot; when the only noticeable action was at sea. Churchill advocated the preemptive ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- Bin Laden was buried at sea within 24 hours after his death, with ... On October 9, 2009, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Obama ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
