ABSTRACT
The Kingdom of Norway occupies the western part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is slightly larger than twice the size of Georgia and is slightly larger than New Mexico. Norway claims the islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen in the Norwegian Sea. Norway was settled in the Middle Stone Age, and by the 9th century A.D., the Norse expeditions began which colonized the islands of Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, and Greenland. The military Grids used for Norway through World War II were the Northern European Lambert Conformal Conic Zones I–III. These were complicated systems that had Grid boundaries defined by other Grid systems, by the graticule, and by numerous ellipsoidal loxodromes. Although easy to compute nowadays, these Grids were part of the nightmare for US Army Topographic Engineers in the 1940s. Jan Mayen is an island northeast of Norway that was annexed on May 8, 1929. The island is slightly larger in area than Washington, DC, there are no permanent inhabitants.
