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442 M e an s of C o m m u n i c a t io n ......................... . 'i Be r n h . An d e r s e n
467 P o s t, T e le g ra p h a n d T e le p h o n e . . . . . / H a n s e n a n d J .T . Soi
474 L a n g u a g e .............................................................. . H j . F a l k
486 L i t e r a t u r e ........................................................... . Ch r . Br in c h m a n n
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617 M u s i c ...................................................................... . V. H. Siew e r s
A p p e n d ix P . I — X V I I T h e C o n s titu tio n of N o rw ay
—»— XVIII — XXIII The Act of Union
(Cf. Index a t the end of the hook.)
GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION
No r w a y forms the north-western part of the Scandinavian
peninsula, which is separated from Northern Europe by the
Baltic. It extends from 57° 58' N.Lat. (the little island of Slet-
tingen off Mandal) to 71° 11' N.Lat. (Knivskjselodden, west of
the North Cape on Magero) or, keeping to the mainland, from
Lindesnes, 57° 59' to Nordkyn, 71° 7', a difference of latitude
equal to that between London and Lisbon. East and west, the
country extends from 4° 30' E.Long. (Utvser at the mouth of the
Sognefjord) to 31° 11' E.Long. (Homo near Yardo), which represents
1 l/s hour’s difference in time; but the degrees of longitude
are short in these latitudes,, scarcely 30 miles in the middle of the
country. The area is 124,495 sq. miles. Erom NE to SW, from
Yard» to Lindesnes is 1100 miles in a straight line, so that if
swung round on the last-named point, the country would reach to
the Pyrenees, Its width in the south is about 250 miles, in the
northern half only about 60 miles, with a little more breadth
again in Einmarken. The distance from the head of the deep fjords
in Nordland to the frontier is considerably less; at one place,
Eombaken, at the head of the Yestfjorden, where the future Ofot
railway is to be laid, the width is even as little as 5 miles.
Norway, as a whole, is thus a long, narrow coast-country on
the North Atlantic; The length of the eoast round the outer belt
of rocks is 1700 milesg-about equal to that of Erance, although
the latter country is more than half as large again —; the entire
shore-line, including the fjords in and out, and the large islands,
may be set down as 12,000 miles, and would stretch half way
round the globe.