POSITION, AREA, AND NATURAL CONDITIONS CLIMATE, FLORA, FAUNA Norway forms the northern and western part of the Scandinavian peninsula. Its superficial area is 322,680 square kilometres. The southernmost point of the country, Kraaga, near Lindesnes, is situated in 57°57'31” N. Lat., and the extreme northern point, Knivskjellodden, near North Cape, is in 71°11'8” N. Lat. The westernmost point of Norway, Stengy off Sognefjord, is 4°30'13” east of Greenwich and the extreme eastern point, Horngy near Vardg, is 31°10’4” east of Greenwich. Norway’s length of frontier to Finland is 920 km. and to Sweden 1650 km. The coastline from the Swedish frontier in the south to the Finnish frontier in the north is 3400 km. in length, but if the coastline in the numerous fjords is included it gives a length of approximately 20,000 km. The coast is girded with a string of islands numbering something like 150,000. At some few points the mainland lies open to the ocean, e.g., at Lindesnes, Jeeren, Stadt, at North Cape and a few other places; but practically the whole of the coast can 15