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Hans Egede writing on the kracken of Norway equates it with the Icelandic hafgufa, though has heard little on the latter. [ 43 ] and later, the non-native Moravian cleric David Crantz [ de ] 's History of Greenland (1765, in German) treated hafgafa as synonymous with the krake [ n ] in the Norwegian tongue.
Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [16] Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv (lit. ' harrow ') and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. [15]
Norway, Iceland, and Denmark/Faroe Islands share the territorial waters of the Norwegian Sea, with the largest part belonging to the first. Norway has claimed twelve-mile limit as territorial waters since 2004 and an exclusive economic zone of 200 miles since 1976. Consequently, due to the Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, the ...
The Jan Mayen class is a class of offshore patrol vessels used by the Norwegian Coast Guard.The Coast Guard first announced plans for the class in September 2016, to increase their capability to patrol Norway's expansive coastal waters, and to replace the ageing Nordkapp-class vessels.
The ice hotel is open to the public for tours, so we didn't get access to our room until 8 p.m. However, due to the timing of our flight, we arrived around 1 p.m., which left us with plenty of ...
They were found on a mountain pass frequented by Vikings 1,000 years ago, researchers said.
Austfonna is an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Covering an area of 7,800 km 2, [1] it is Europe's third-largest glacier by area and volume, after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, and Vatnajökull in Iceland. [2] The combined area of Austfonna and the Vegafonna ice cap is 8,492 km 2. [3]
During full-scale ice trials north of Svalbard, Kronprins Haakon was found out to be capable of breaking 1-metre (3 ft 3 in) ice with a 20-centimetre (8 in) snow layer at a continuous speed of 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) at full propulsion power, slightly exceeding her contractual requirements.