Among the social sciences, history is characterised as the most particularising discipline - the discipline to the greatest extent studying the way definite actions, events and structures differ from time to time and place to place. A considerable part of Norwegian historical research deals with local areas, <i>kommuner</i> (municipalities), <i>fylker</i> (provinces) and other regions below the ...

In the years 1768-1770 an expedition lead by the Austrian/Hungarian astronomer and Jesuit Father Maximilian Hell travelled to Vardø in the northernmost part of Norway. The main objective of the expedition was to observe the transit of Venus in June 1769. However, scientific investigations in several other fields were also performed, among them observations of the magnetic declination. From the ...

This report summarises consequences of a planned wind park at the Sneqord peninsula, Måsøy municipality. Impact assessments are conducted for landscape perspectives, flora, fauna, outdoor recreation, cultural heritage and reindeer herding. The whole peninsula, 150 km2. is evaluated, with the main focus on higher parts where the potential wind turbines will be located. For the landscape, a wind park ...

The article has as a starting point the fact that regions are one of the central political topics of today. Though regions have certain roots in history, they were not politicized until the nineteenth century, when they were “invented” as a tool for identity-shaping and development in the fringe areas of the state. The article operates with North Norway as a case in analyzing modern region-building ...

How are we, as historians of science, to deal with the history of scientific expeditions whose aims and scope covered multiple branches of research? Should we content ourselves to study the underlying, socio-political contexts motivating the expeditions, and give examples of what impression the local population, the nature, climate, etc. of the region made on the visiting scientists? Or should we ...

På 1600-tallet kjennetegnes Finnmark av å være et omstridt og usikkert grenseområde innenfor en ekspanderende danskdominert konglomeratstat. Denne nordøstlige regionen ut mot Barentshavet er under press fra rivaliserende makter både på land og til havs. Et høyt innslag av demografisk mobilitet og etnisk mangfold er vesentlige trekk ved et relativt lavt befolkningsgrunnlag. Økonomiske krisekonjunkturer ...

Utgravningene av totalt elleve lokaliteter på Skarpeneset i 2008, med et begrenset tillegg i 2009, avdekket overraskende fire store, rektangulære tufter, mer eller mindre nedgravde i bakken, på to av lokalitetene. Tuftene er datert samlet til 7000 – 6500/6400 f.Kr. Det foreslås at de er rester etter hus med parvis skråstilte, takbærende stolper, uten markerte ildsteder og med minst to åpninger/innganger. ...

The remains of both prehistoric and historic period boathouses are visible in the landscape as collapsed walls of turf and rock or stacked rocks with an openended rectangular outline. These structures are located along present and former shorelines, river and stream banks, lakes and other bodies of water. Their openings usually face the water to facilitate boataccess.