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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.
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 ...
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.
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
Hvalsey ("Whale Island"; Greenlandic Qaqortukulooq) is located near Qaqortoq, Greenland and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins in the area known as the Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð). In 2017, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and part of the Kujataa Greenland site.
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
Norway is a country located in Northern Europe in the northern and western parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula.The majority of the country borders water, including the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Sea to the southwest, the North Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west, and the Barents Sea to the north.
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.