Facts About Norway
> aff Area: 124,964 square miles. Population: 2,809,564 (1930), compared with 977,500 (1820). Has many lakes: Mijosen is 60 miles long ' and its bottom is 1,080 feet befow sea level. The Justedal glacier is the second largest in Europe (to Vatnajokull in Iceland). It has an area of 580 square miles, is 87 miles long by 6 to 22 miles wide, and falls to within 150 feet of the sea. Two per cent. of the country’s area is under §laciers. From the many hundreds of waterfalls engineers estimate Norway could develop © 13,000,000 horse power. At present she uses 3,000,000. Before the war took its toll the Norwegian Merchant Marine. was fourth largest in the world, with 4,000 ships of a gross tonnage of 4,071,000. ~ The population is roughly divided as follows: 84,000 in agriculture, 700,000 in industry, 200,000 in fishing and whaling, 450,000 in commerce, and 100,000 in shipping. The Norwegian church is Lutheran, and to it all but 3% of the population belong. From Newcastle-on-Tyne, Bergen is 21 hours steaming by fast passenger motorship, Stavanger 24 hours. From Newcastle to Oslo takes 38 hours, but from Hull to Kristiansand and Oslo takes only 30 hours.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 9
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198Facts About Norway New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 9
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