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Cape Norvegia

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Cape Norvegia (71°20′S 12°18′W / -71.333, -12.3) is a prominent cape on the coast of Queen Maud Land which marks the northeast extremity of Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf. It was discovered by Commander Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen in February 1930 while on an airplane flight from the Norvegia, the ship in which the expedition was made. The cape was named by Riiser-Larsen for the ship. This article... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    Cape Norvegia

    Cape Norvegia (71°20′S 12°18′W / 71.333°S 12.3°W) is a prominent cape on the coast of Queen Maud Land which marks the northeast extremity of Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
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    Princess Martha Coast

    Princess Martha Coast (72°0′S 7°30′W / 72°S 7.5°W) is that portion of the coast of Queen Maud Land lying between 05° E and the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20° W. ... The name "Crown Princess Martha Land" was originally applied by Capt. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen to that section of the coast in the vicinity of Cape Norvegia which he discovered from the Norvegia and roughly charted from the air during February 1930.
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    Seal Bay (Antarctica)

    Seal Bay is a bay which indents the northeastern end of Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf just southward of Cape Norvegia, on the coast of Queen Maud Land. It was discovered in 1930 by Capt. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and so named by him because of the abundance of seals in the bay.
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    Quar Ice Shelf

    Quar Ice Shelf (71°20′S 11°0′W / 71.333°S 11°W) is the ice shelf between Cape Norvegia and Sorasen Ridge along the coast of Queen Maud Land.
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    Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf

    Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf (72°40′S 16°0′W / 72.667°S 16°W) is an ice shelf about 250 miles (400 km) long on the coast of Queen Maud Land, extending from Cape Norvegia in the north to Lyddan Island and Stancomb-Wills Glacier in the south. Parts of the ice shelf were sighted by William Speirs Bruce in 1904, Ernest Shackleton in 1915, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen in 1930.
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    Cape Ingrid

    Cape Ingrid (68°46′S 90°42′W / 68.767°S 90.7°W) is a dark rock promontory separating Norvegia Bay and Sandefjord Cove on the west side of Peter I Island. Discovered in 1927 by a Norwegian expedition under Eyvind Tofte in the Named for Ingrid Christensen, the wife of Lars Christensen.
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    List of diplomatic missions in Russia

    http://www.norvegia.ru/Embassy/stpetersburg/stpetersburg/ ... | Algeria • Angola • Benin • Botswana • Burkina Faso • Burundi • Cameroon • Cape Verde • Central African Republic • Chad • Comoros • Congo, Democratic Republic of the • Congo, Republic of the • Côte d'Ivoire • Djibouti • Egypt • Equatorial Guinea • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Gabon • Gambia • Ghana •...
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    Nimrod Islands

    The Nimrod Islands were a group of islands first reported in 1828 by Captain Eilbeck of the ship Nimrod while sailing from Port Jackson around Cape Horn. ... John King Davis in the Nimrod searched the location in June 1909 following Shackleton's famous Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica, and the Norwegian vessel Norvegia outfitted by Lars Christensen searched again in 1930; both expeditions reported empty seas.
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    Bouvet Island

    To the northeast, it is about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) to Cape Town. ... The first extended stay on the island was in 1927, when the Norwegian crew of the ship Norvegia stayed for about a month.
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    2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

    | Norvegia | Norway | Pål Trulsen | 81 | ... After the largest curtain yet to be built revealed him on the stage, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, wearing a black cape embroidered with silver Olympic rings, ended the ceremony by singing Giacomo Puccini's well-known aria Nessun Dorma from the opera Turandot, which ends with the victorious line "At dawn, I shall win!"

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