- Links
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Norwegian and international High North material
The International Polar Year 2007 - 2008
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
- Maps
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Barentswatch Atlas, UN Environment Program
ECNN Resource Maps
EU interactive map of the Barents
CAFF map over vegetation in the Northern areas
- Daily life in East Greenland 1926
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Watch an excerpt of this Christian Leden film in a new window
RealPlayer Free Download.
- BarentsObserver headlines
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Governor reveals plans for new port on Barents Sea coast - Valerii Potapenko, governor of the oil-rich Nenets Autonomous Okrug, says the plans for a new major sea port north in the region are under development. The projected Indiga port has pipeline and railway connection and the capacity to export major amount of Russian oil.
Norway, Russia good neighbours - also in the air - So far this year, five times more Russian aircrafts have been registered along the Norwegian coast compared with last year. The Norwegian Air Forces still maintain that relations with the Russian military remain excellent
Bring your car on the Helsinki-St.Petersburg train - The Russian Railways are considering to open up for train passengers to bring their cars on the route Sankt Petersburg-Helsinki.
Armed Forces under threat - The Norwegian Armed Forces will be reduced to an unprecedented minimum if a radical cut proposal from Head of Armed Forces is approved by government.
Gazprom in lack of money - The many recent company acquisitions are draining the financial capacities of Russian energy major Gazprom.
- The High North
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The High North will be Norway’s most important strategic priority area in the years ahead. The Government will intensify efforts to exercise Norwegian sovereignty and ensure sustainable management of the rich fisheries and energy resources in the region. Norway’s High North policy is intended to protect the environment, maintain settlement patterns and promote business development.
The National Library aims to become a substantial source of knowledge for the understanding of Norway's High North effort, by making digitally accessible both historic and modern content from our collection.
Read more ...
- Norway's High North Strategy
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Materials from all ministries (in Norwegian)
A new dimension to Norwegian foreign policy (in Norwegian)
The High North (pdf)
Knowledge is at the core of the High North strategy
Management plan
Environment (in Norwegian)
Indigenous peoples (in Norwegian)
Oil and gas (in Norwegian)
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- Cooperation between the rights organizations and the National Library
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The Norwegian Publishers' Association, the Norwegian Authors' Union, the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association, the Norwegian Critics' Association and the rights organization LINO have all signed agreements with the National Library in order to make copyrighted material accessible in digital full text.
Read the agreement.
- Arctic material in the National Library
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"Norge" over the North Pole
Roald Amundsen's photo archive (3597 items)
Fridtjof Nansen's photo archive (2547 items)
The First Crossing of Greenland (full text in Norwegian)
The letter from the South Pole
- Christian Leden - the forgotten Norwegian Arctic explorer
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Organ player, ethnomusicologist, arctic explorer, eskimologist, ethnologist, composer and scientist.
Christian Leden was active in many fields.
The film on the front page was recorded by Leden in East Greenland in 1926.
Read about Christan Leden here.
