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• File:Antarctica, Norway territorial claim (Queen Maud Land, 2015).svg.png (600 × 600 (85 KB)) - 10:45, 7 April 2018

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• File:Norway.png Flag of Norway. (800 × 582 (3 KB)) - 17:04, 5 April 2018

• Norwegian Antarctic claim
  Norway has three dependent '''Antarctic territories''', two of which are located s Norway's claim on Queen Maud Land includes the entirety of the cartographic area c
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• File:The Three Polar Stars, 1913.jpg ...elphia Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway Lenke / Link: www.nb.no Bildesignatur / Image Number: bldsa_SURA0042 Author Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway (960 × 768 (136 KB)) - 04:55, 24 April 2018

• Queen Maud Land
  [[File:Antarctica, Norway territorial claim (Queen Maud Land, 2015).svg.png|thumb|Queen Maud Land]] ...aud Land's borders of 1939 and the [[South Pole]] until June 12, 2015 when Norway formally annexed that area. The claim is named after the Norwegian queen Ma
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• File:Peter I Island Map.jpg Author: Map created by Grand Duke Travis with the assistance of the Norway Office of Polar Programs. (563 × 584 (297 KB)) - 08:09, 1 December 2019

• Bouvet Island
  ...et Island''' is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the [[Southern Ocean]] at 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E, putting it n ...st ''Norvegia'' expedition landed on the island in 1927 and claimed it for Norway. At this time the island was named ''Bouvet Island'', or "Bouvetøya" in No
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• Sandefjord Cove
  The cove was named for Sandefjord, Norway, which was the center of the Norwegian [[whaling|whaling industry]].
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• Antarctic Plateau
  ...he ''Haakon VII Plateau'' in honor of the newly elected King Haakon VII of Norway. ...he seacoast. The chief pilot of this flight was Bernt Balchen, a native of Norway, and the navigator and chief organizer of this expedition was [[Richard E.
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• Peter I Island
  The island was annexed by Norway in 1931 and later annexed from Norway by Westarctica in 2005. Neither annexation has been recognized by the signa ===Annexation by Norway===
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• Australian Antarctic Territory
  ...esult, only four other countries (New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, and Norway) recognize Australia's claim to sovereignty in Antarctica.
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• File:Ernest Shackleton before 1909.jpg National Library of Norway Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q924551 (2,409 × 3,519 (1.17 MB)) - 04:53, 24 April 2018

• Territorial claims in Antarctica
  ===Norway=== Norway maintains [[Norwegian Antarctic claim|several claims]] to land south of the
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• Odd I
  After the onset of the German occupation of Norway, on 29 June 1940 the occupying authorities acquired ''Odd I''. They then to
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• Lars Christensen
  Lars Christensen was born at Sandar in Vestfold, Norway. Born into a wealthy family, Christensen inherited his whaling fleet from h ...hristensen landed on and claimed the [[Bouvet Island]] (''Bouvetøya'') for Norway; it had previously been claimed by Great Britain, but the British soon aban
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• Whaling in Japan
  ...those whales killed have shown increasing signs of stress. Japan, echoing Norway's arguments on its own whaling activities, also argues it is entitled to co ...an's] whaling is cultural imperialism – some people would say it's racism. Norway and Iceland are also whalers, but the criticism of Japan is stronger."
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• Antarctic Peninsula
  ...British claim is recognized though by Australia, France, New Zealand, and Norway. Argentina has the most bases and personnel stationed on the peninsula.
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• New Swabia
  ...at the Princess Martha Coast, in an area which had lately been claimed by Norway as [[Queen Maud Land]] and began charting the region. Nazi flags were place ...ion. New Swabia is a cartographic area of [[Queen Maud Land]] which within Norway is administered as a Norwegian dependent territory under the [[Antarctic Tr
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• Template:Encyclopedia Westarctica:This month in history/November
  ...Letter]]''' is sent to the polar administration offices of Russia, France, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, the United States, and the Unite
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• Fram
  ''Fram'' is preserved as a museum ship at the ''Fram'' Museum in Oslo, Norway.
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• Whaling
  ...coastline. The nations represented included Argentina, the United Kingdom, Norway, South Africa, and Japan. ...ject to intense debate. Pro-whaling countries, notably Iceland, Japan, and Norway, wish to lift the ban on certain whale stocks for hunting. Anti-whaling cou
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