Norway
- Bouvet Island (territory)
- Administered by the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice and Police from Oslo
- Norwegian Antarctic Territory (Queen Maud Land and Peter I Island)
- Winther January–Gunnar, Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute (2005–present)
- Norwegian Antarctic claim has not been recognized by the United Nations, U.S., Russia, or by most other countries.
See also: Antarctic Treaty.
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Famous quotes containing the word norway:
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“A long time you have been making the trip
From Havre to Hartford, Master Soleil,
Bringing the lights of Norway and all that.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Such was the very armor he had on
When he the ambitious Norway combated.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)