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| - 1 Jan 1739 Bouvet Island discovered by French Capt. Jean-
- Baptiste CharlesBouvetde Lozier (b. 1705 -
- d. 1785).
- 21 Jan 1821 Peter I Island discovered by Russian explorer
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (Faddey
- Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen (b. 1778 -d. 1852).
- 10 Dec 1825 Bouvet Island claimed for Britain by Capt. George
- Norris and renamed Liverpool Island (claim
- waived in favor of Norway 29 Nov 1929).
- Nov 1893 - Mar 1894 Carl Anton Larsen (b. 1860 - d. 1924) discovered
- and named Foyn Coast in Graham Land, King Oscar II
- Coast, Mount Jason, and Robertson Island.
- 24 Jan 1895 Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (b. 1864 - d. 1934)
- made the first landing on Antarctica. Three years
- later he led the first party to winter on the
- continent.
- 14 Dec 1911 Five Norwegians, under the leadership of Roald
- Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (b. 1872 - d.1928),
- are the first to reach the South Pole.
- 1 Dec 1927 Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya) claimed for Norway by Lars
- Christensen (b. 1884 - d. 1964)(formally annexed
- 23 Jan1928).
- 1 Mar 1928 Norwegian Svalbard and Arctic Ocean Survey (Norges
- Svalbard- og Ishavsundersøkelser) founded.
- 2 Feb 1929 Peter I Island claimed (Peter I Øy formally annexed
- 27 Feb 1930) byNorway.
- 14 Jan 1939 Queen Maud Land (Dronning Maud Land) in Antarctica
- (45°E to 20°E) formally claimed as a possession
- of Norway.
- 19 Jan - 15 Feb 1939 The area 20°E to 10°W is explored by a German
- expedition led by Alfred Ritscher (b. 1879 - d.
- 1963) and named New Swabia (Neu-Schwabenland), but
- not formally claimed.
- 13 Jan 1941 German commandos board and capture two
- Norwegian factory ships in the sea north of
- Queen Maud Land. By the end of the next day,
- the Germans had taken possession of three
- factory ships and eleven catchers. German
- Navy subsequently used the waters of the
- Peninsula and the sub-Antarctic islands as a
- haven from which they could venture forth to
- attack allied shipping.
- 1 Mar 1948 Norwegian Polar Institute founded (part of Ministry
- of Trade and Industry, from 1978 the Ministry
- of the Environment) assigned to administer
- Queen Maud Land.
- 21 Jun 1957 Norway declares Dronning Maud Land,Bouvet and
- Peter I Islands subject to Norwegian sovereignty
- as a dependency(Norwegian Antarctic Territory).
- 12 Jun 2015 Norway formally annexes the area between Queen Maud
- Land's borders of 1939 and the South Pole.
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Heads of the Norwegian Svalbard and Arctic Ocean Survey 1 Mar 1928 - 1945 Adolf Hoel (b. 1879 - d. 1964) 1945 - 1948 Anders Kristian Orvin (b. 1889 - d. 1980) Directors, Norwegian Polar Institute (Norsk Polarinstitutt) (in Oslo; from 1998 Tromsø, Norway) 1948 - 21 Aug 1957 Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (b. 1888 - d. 1957) 1957 - 1960 Anders Kristian Orvin (s.a.) 1960 - 1983 Tore Gjelsvik (b. 1917 - d. 2006) 1 Nov 1983 - Mar 1991 Odd Reidar Rogne (b. 1942) 1991 - 1993 Nils Are Øritsland (acting) (b. 1939 - d. 2006) 1993 - 2005 Olav Orheim (b. 1942) 2005 - 2017 Jan-Gunnar Winther (b. 1962) 1 Sep 2017 - 2023 Ole Arve Misund (b. 1957) Aug/Sep 2023 - Camilla Brekke (f) (b. 1977)
Territorial Dispute: Norwegian Antarctic claim is recognized byAustralia, France, New Zealand, andU.K., but it is not recognized by the United Nations, U.S., Russia or by most other countries.
© Ben Cahoon
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