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GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION



Norway 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
Slettingen off Mandal) to 71° 11′ N. Lat. (Knivskjælodden, west of
the North Cape on Magerø) 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. (Utvær at the mouth of the
Sognefjord) to 31° 11′ E. Long. (Hornø near Vardø), which represents
1 ½ hours 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. From NE to SW, from
Vardø 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 Finmarken. The distance from the head of the deep fjords
in Nordland to the frontier is considerably less; at one place,
Rombaken, at the head of the Vestfjorden, 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 coast round the outer belt
of rocks is 1700 miles — about equal to that of France, 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.

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