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Greenland also contains the world's largest national park; it is the largest constituent country by area in the world and is the fourth largest country subdivision in the world, after Sakha Republic in Russia, Australia's state of Western Australia, and Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the largest in North America.
Erik the Red's Land, northeast coast of Greenland and Fridtjof Nansen Land, southeast coast of Greenland, claimed and annexed from 1931 until awarded to Denmark by a court decision in 1933. [12] Inari and Petsamo, now part of Finland and Russia, claimed from Finland from about 1942 to 1945 by the Quisling regime during the Nazi occupation of ...
Erik the Red's Land (Norwegian: Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century.
The protected areas make up 65% of the archipelago. [132] Svalbard is on Norway's tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [186] The total solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 included only Svalbard and the Faroe Islands in the band of totality. [187]
The first of these new areas came into existence on 1 January 2018, when Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag merged to form Trøndelag. According to most definitions, the counties of Norway are divided into the following regions (these groupings are approximate): Northern Norway (Nord-Norge / Nord-Noreg) Troms; Finnmark; Nordland
The Lindenow Fjord extends in an WNW/ESE direction for about 64 km. To the east the fjord opens into the North Atlantic Ocean south of Nanuuseq Fjord. Nanuuseq Island lies close to the northeast of the northern end of its mouth and larger Queen Louise Island at the southern end of its mouth.
Territories of Eastern Greenland claimed by Norway until the 1933 Permanent Court of International Justice resolution. Storfjord Station stood roughly between both areas. Storfjord was a Norwegian hunting , meteorological and radio station ("Storfjord/LMR") [ 1 ] located in King Christian IX Land , Eastern Greenland .
Rest of Greenland – UTC-02; Extreme points of Greenland. High: Gunnbjørn Fjeld 3,700 m (12,139 ft) – highest point in the Arctic; Low: Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: Canada 1,280 m (4,200 feet) Coastline: 44,087 km; Population of Greenland: 56,344; Area of Greenland: 2,166,086 km 2; Atlas of Greenland