Norwegian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Gudbrandsdalen with the correct year: In July ______ the Storofsen flood disaster occurred and Gudbrandsdalslågen overflooded.
  2. Complete the sentence about Trøndelag with the correct year: The powerful Jarls of Lade continued to play a very significant political role in Norway up to ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Nordland with the correct year: The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen has been administered from Nordland since ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Troms with the correct year: The entire county, which was established in ______, is located north of the Arctic Circle.
  5. Complete the sentence about Troms with the correct year: In July ______, the Northern Sami name for the county, Romsa, was granted official status along with Troms.
  6. Complete the sentence about Finnmark with the correct year: In January ______, Finnmark merged with the neighbouring county of Troms to form Troms og Finnmark county.
  7. Complete the sentence about Finnmark with the correct year: The design is from ______ and shows the old Vardøhus Fortress, historically on the eastern border with Russia.
  8. Complete the sentence about Finnmark with the correct year: Border skirmishes between the Norwegians and Novgorodians continued until ______, when the Treaty of Novgorod settled the issue.
  9. Complete the sentence about Vestland with the correct year: On 19 February ______, a royal decree changed the name to Bergenhus amt.
  10. Complete the sentence about Vestland with the correct year: The Sunnmøre region was transferred to Romsdalen amt in ______ and the Nordlandene amt was separated around that time as well.
  11. Complete the sentence about Vestland with the correct year: In ______, the amt was divided into northern and southern parts: Nordre Bergenhus amt and Søndre Bergenhus amt.
  12. Complete the sentence about Vestland with the correct year: In ______, the border was re-drawn so that all of Gulen was located in the northern part.
  13. Complete the sentence about Vestland with the correct year: During that time in ______, Årstad Municipality was annexed into Bergen.
  14. Complete the sentence about Rogaland with the correct year: During Denmark's rule of Norway the county was named Stavanger amt, after the large city of Stavanger, and this name continued to be used un…
  15. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The coat of arms is modern; it was granted on 11 January ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Agder with the correct year: The name Agder was not used after ______, when the area was split into smaller governmental units called Nedenæs, Råbyggelaget, Lister, and Man…
  17. Complete the sentence about Agder with the correct year: On 1 January ______, the formannskapsdistrikt law went into effect, creating local municipalities all over Norway.
  18. Complete the sentence about Agder with the correct year: When Agder county was established on 1 January ______, it had 25 municipalities.
  19. Complete the sentence about Innlandet with the correct year: The ______ Winter Olympics were held at Lillehammer, the second-largest city in Innlandet county.
  20. Complete the sentence about Møre og Romsdal with the correct year: Due to its difficult terrain, Møre og Romsdal has been very dependent on boat traffic, and its main car ferry company, MRF, has exist…
  21. Complete the sentence about Counties of Norway with the correct year: In ______, the historical term fylke was brought into use again to replace the term amt introduced during the union with Denmark.
  22. Complete the sentence about Counties of Norway with the correct year: The following shows a reconstruction of the different syssel in Norway c. ______, including sub-syssel where these seem establishe…
  23. Complete the sentence about Norway with the correct year: Norway was neutral during the First World War, and in the Second World War until April ______ when it was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany…
  24. Complete the sentence about Norway with the correct year: As a unitary state with a constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the parliament, the cabinet, and the judiciary, as deter…
  25. Complete the sentence about Akershus Fortress with the correct year: The castle is mentioned in written sources for the first time in ______ in a letter from King Haakon to a church in Oslo.
  26. Complete the sentence about Akershus Fortress with the correct year: The fortress has successfully survived all sieges, primarily by Swedish forces, including those by forces led by Charles XII in ___…
  27. Complete the sentence about Akershus Fortress with the correct year: The fortress was first used in battle in ______, when it was besieged by the Swedish duke Erik Magnusson.
  28. Complete the sentence about Royal Palace, Oslo with the correct year: During the last years of the union with Denmark Paléet was used by the viceroys of Norway, and in ______ by the first king of inde…
  29. Complete the sentence about Oslo Opera House with the correct year: The gala opening on 12 April ______ was attended by His Majesty King Harald, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and President Tarja Halon…
  30. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The work was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Sonja on 11 May ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Holmenkollen with the correct year: The Holmenkollen Chapel was destroyed by arson in August ______ by black metal artists Varg Vikernes, Bård “Faust” Eithun and Øystein “E…
  32. Complete the sentence about Oslo City Hall with the correct year: The building fell into decay and by ______ a building at Rådhusgaten 7 was selected to be a new City Hall.
  33. Complete the sentence about Oslo City Hall with the correct year: The idea of building a new city hall in Pipervika was first suggested by architect Oscar Hoff in ______, but nothing came of the plans…
  34. Complete the sentence about Nidaros Cathedral with the correct year: In ______, the church was designated as the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nidaros.
  35. Complete the sentence about Bryggen with the correct year: Bryggen has been on the UNESCO list for World Cultural Heritage sites since ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Bryggen with the correct year: The city of Bergen was founded around ______ within the boundaries of Tyskebryggen.
  37. Complete the sentence about Bryggen with the correct year: Around ______ a Kontor of the Hanseatic League was established there, and Tyskebryggen became the centre of the Hanseatic commercial activiti…
  38. Complete the sentence about Bryggen with the correct year: Around ______, a Kontor of the Hanseatic League was established in Bryggen.
  39. Complete the sentence about Bryggen with the correct year: In ______, the buildings belonging to the Hanseatic League were damaged by fire.
  40. Complete the sentence about Bryggen with the correct year: In ______, the operations of the office at Bryggen ended, when all the properties were transferred to Norwegian citizens.
  41. Complete the sentence about Urnes Stave Church with the correct year: In ______, the Urnes Stave Church was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
  42. Complete the sentence about Urnes Stave Church with the correct year: The Urnes Stave Church was built around the year ______ or shortly thereafter, and still stands in its original location; it is be…
  43. Complete the sentence about Vega Archipelago with the correct year: Since ______, the archipelago has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  44. Complete the sentence about Flåm Railway with the correct year: Until ______, the train connected with a ferry service from Flåm to Gudvangen.
  45. Complete the sentence about Flåm Railway with the correct year: Plans to build a railway to connect Norway's two largest cities, Oslo and Bergen, were launched by Andreas Tanberg Gløersen in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bergen Line with the correct year: The railway opened from Bergen to Voss in ______ as the narrow gauge Voss Line.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bergen Line with the correct year: In ______, the route was continued over the mountain to Oslo and the whole route converted to standard gauge, and the Voss Line became pa…
  48. Complete the sentence about Bergen Line with the correct year: The first documented proposal for building a railway between Norway's two largest cities was announced by Andreas Tanberg Gløersen on 24…
  49. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Gløersen had come up with the idea of the Jæren Line.
  50. Complete the sentence about Bergen Line with the correct year: In ______, the railway director Carl Abraham Pihl and two engineers went on a survey tour along suggested line.
  51. Complete the sentence about Bergen Line with the correct year: On 20 October ______ two engineers traversed the two possible routes from Bergen to Voss; the one via Fana, Os and Hardangerfjord, the ot…
  52. Complete the sentence about Bergen Line with the correct year: A railway committee was created on 25 January ______ with a limited mandate, which was expanded on 20 December.
  53. Complete the sentence about Hurtigruten with the correct year: In ______, the last two remaining Hurtigruten companies OVDS and TFDS merged to form the company Hurtigruten AS, named after the route.
  54. Complete the sentence about Hurtigruten with the correct year: Hurtigruten was established in ______ by government contract to improve communications along Norway's long, jagged coastline.
  55. Complete the sentence about Kon-Tiki Museum with the correct year: In ______, an extension of the museum designed by Torgersen was opened.
  56. Complete the sentence about Fram Museum with the correct year: Roald Amundsen and a crew of six accomplished that feat in a three-year journey which was finished in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Gokstad ship with the correct year: In ______, sons of the owner of Gokstad farm, having heard of the legends surrounding the site, uncovered the bow of a boat while diggin…
  58. Complete the sentence about Gokstad ship with the correct year: As word of the find got out, Nicolay Nicolaysen, then President of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, reac…
  59. Complete the sentence about Oseberg ship with the correct year: In ______, an attempt to build a copy of the Oseberg ship was launched.
  60. Complete the sentence about Oseberg ship with the correct year: In ______, a new reconstruction project called Saga Oseberg was started.
  61. Complete the sentence about Folgefonna with the correct year: Since around ______, Blomstølskardbreen on the southern end of Folgefonna has changed very little.
  62. Complete the sentence about Folgefonna with the correct year: Bondhusbreen and Buerbreen further north were growing in the 1990s, but have been retreating since the year ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hardangervidda National Park with the correct year: At night on 26 August ______, 323 wild reindeers, including 70 calves, were killed by lightning during a storm, when the…
  64. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the DNT built its first hut on the shores of Lake Tyin.
  65. Complete the sentence about Moskstraumen with the correct year: Rosa Arciniega's ______ Spanish-language dystopian novel Mosko-Strom: El Torbellino de las Grandes Metrópolis references Moskstraumen.
  66. Complete the sentence about Moskstraumen with the correct year: In ______ the German painter Ingo Kühl visited the Lofoten, set up a provisional studio in Reine in a rorbu and painted Moskstraumen.
  67. Complete the sentence about Svalbard Global Seed Vault with the correct year: The team conducted a feasibility study in ______ and concurred that Svalbard was an appropriate location for long-term sto…
  68. Complete the sentence about Svalbard Global Seed Vault with the correct year: In ______, Geoffrey Hawtin was appointed to prepare a report on technical, administrative and political issues.
  69. Complete the sentence about Bear Island, Norway with the correct year: Bear Island was discovered by Dutch explorers Willem Barentsz and Jacob van Heemskerck on 10 June ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Bear Island, Norway with the correct year: The island was considered terra nullius until the Spitsbergen Treaty of ______ placed it under Norwegian sovereignty.
  71. Complete the sentence about Bear Island, Norway with the correct year: Seafarers of the Viking era may have known Bear Island, but the documented history begins in ______, when Willem Barentsz sighted…
  72. Complete the sentence about Ny-Ålesund with the correct year: The town was founded in ______ by Peter Brandal and his mining company, Kings Bay Kull Comp.
  73. Complete the sentence about Barentsburg with the correct year: In ______ the company sold the mine, including its settlement Barentsburg, to the Soviet trust Arktikugol.
  74. Complete the sentence about Barentsburg with the correct year: In ______ the Dutch sold their concession to the Soviet Union.
  75. Complete the sentence about Pyramiden with the correct year: In ______, a charter flight for Arktikugol crashed on the approach to Svalbard Airport with the loss of 141 lives.
  76. Complete the sentence about Pyramiden with the correct year: Mining ceased on 31 March ______ and the settlement closed that same year.
  77. Complete the sentence about Reine, Norway with the correct year: In December ______, the Germans burnt part of Reine in reprisal for a raid on the Lofoten Islands by British troops.
  78. Complete the sentence about Reine, Norway with the correct year: In ______, the painter Ingo Kühl set up a temporary studio in a rorbu and painted the view over the harbor to the mountain range.
  79. Complete the sentence about Henningsvær with the correct year: Pepsi Max Norge offered their support for the UEFA Champions League Final in ______ with an art installation created by children kicking…
  80. Complete the sentence about Besseggen with the correct year: In ______ the Norwegian government authorized spending of 1.2 million kr towards the restoration of the trails.
  81. Complete the sentence about Besseggen with the correct year: The record time from ______ is held by Reidar Andreassen who was almost four and a half minutes ahead of the next finisher.
  82. Complete the sentence about Besseggen with the correct year: The women's record, set in ______, is held by Valborg Østberg from Gjøvik with a time of 1 hour 39 minutes and 47 seconds.
  83. Complete the sentence about Romsdalshorn with the correct year: The first "official" ascent was 1 September ______ by the Danish climber Carl Hall, together with Norwegians Erik Norahagen and Mathias…
  84. Complete the sentence about Romsdalshorn with the correct year: Arne Randers Heen made the first winter ascent of Romsdalshorn in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Trollveggen with the correct year: Carl Boenish, the "father" of BASE jumping, was killed on the Troll Wall in ______ shortly after setting the world record for the highest…
  86. Complete the sentence about Trollveggen with the correct year: BASE jumping from the Troll Wall has been illegal since ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Trollveggen with the correct year: The Troll Wall was first climbed in ______ by a Norwegian team consisting of Ole Daniel Enersen, Leif Norman Patterson, Odd Eliassen and…
  88. Complete the sentence about Store Skagastølstind with the correct year: The first ascent of Storen was made by William Cecil Slingsby on 21 July ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Store Skagastølstind with the correct year: The first ascent of the traverse was made by George Wegner Paus, Harold Raeburn, Kristian Lous, and Kristian Tandberg on 5 Augus…
  90. Complete the sentence about Store Skagastølstind with the correct year: Slingsby's first ascent in ______ was hailed as a major achievement, and Johannes Heftye soon felt it eclipsed his own first asc…
  91. Complete the sentence about Oslo Airport, Gardermoen with the correct year: The airport location was first used by the Norwegian Army from ______, with the first military airport facilities being buil…
  92. Complete the sentence about Bergen Airport, Flesland with the correct year: Until ______, Flesland Air Station of the Norwegian Air Force was co-located at the airport.
  93. Complete the sentence about Bergen Airport, Flesland with the correct year: Financing of Flesland was largely secured through NATO funds, and the airport opened on 2 October ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Bergen Airport, Flesland with the correct year: The first aircraft to operate in Bergen was a demonstration flight by Carl Gustav Cederström on 25 September ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Nordland Railway with the correct year: Construction continued in a slow pace northwards, but was accelerated by the Wehrmacht after the ______ occupation.
  96. Complete the sentence about Nordland Railway with the correct year: A committee to look into building a railway northwards from Trondheim was established in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Nordland Railway with the correct year: Shares in the railway company were offered for sale in ______, of which NOK 1.2 million was bought by Trondheim Municipality.
  98. Complete the sentence about Dovre Line with the correct year: To complicate the pattern even more, the first use of the Dovre Line was on the section between Dombås and Støren, completed in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Dovre Line with the correct year: Since June ______, the service is operated by SJ Norge under the brand "SJ Nord".
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Bergen? Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway after the capital, ______.

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