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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Endurance
  ...Trans-Antarctic Expedition]]. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway and was crushed by [[ice]], causing her to sink three years later in the [[ ...rud Larsen, ''Endurance'' was built at the Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway and fully completed on 17 December 1912. She was built under the supervisio
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• Roald Amundsen
  ...most 3.5 years abroad. It took until 1972 to have the ''Gjøa'' returned to Norway. After a 45-day trip from San Francisco on a bulk carrier, the ''Gjøa'' wa
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• Operation Deep Freeze
  ...e United States along with New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Norway, Chile, Argentina, and the U.S.S.R. agreed to go to the South Pole, the lea
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• South Pole
  ...n designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 80), following a proposal by Norway to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. The precise location of the t ...surrounding the Pole King Haakon VII Vidde in honor of King Haakon VII of Norway. Robert Falcon Scott returned to Antarctica with his second expedition, the
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• Antarctic Treaty
  :* Norway
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