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
