Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

In 1996 tax rules in Norway were changed to keep shipping companies competitive and under the Norwegian flag.

Flags of Sweden and Norway in 1899, after the removal of the union badge from the Norwegian merchant flag.

Proposed by the Norwegian Prime Minister and unionist Peder Anker, the white saltire on a red background was supposed to symbolize Norway, as the country had previously been united with Denmark and initially continued to use the same flag as an independent country, but with the national arms in the canton.

This flag was optional for Swedish vessels, but compulsory for Norwegian ones in distant waters.

Following the adoption of a separate Norwegian flag, a Royal regulation of July 17, 1821, stipulated that ships of both kingdoms use the common square-cut civil ensign ( with the saltire included ) in " distant waters " ( i. e. beyond Cape Finisterre ).

During the late 19th century, increasing Norwegian dissatisfaction with the union led to the demand for a return to the " pure " flag of 1821 without the union badge.

Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended.

The 17 May, the date of the signing of the constitution, is celebrated as Norwegian Constitution Day with the school children's flag parades.

It introduced a new livery with a blue bottom, and replaced the Norwegian flag on the tail with an abstract, silver wing, that became the company's new logo.

In 1814 independent Norway adopted the Danish flag with the Norwegian lion in the canton or the upper square at the hoist.

Until 1838 the Norwegian flag was only used in Northern waters, as Norway had no treaty with the Barbary pirates of North Africa and had to fly the Swedish or union flag for protection.

The flag shape is not uncommon for Norwegian football clubs formed during the transition from the 19th to the 20th century ; other examples include Start and Fredrikstad.

The flag design closely resembles that of the Norwegian flag, with the fimbriated cross.

Fredrik Meltzer ( 29 September 1779 in Bergen, Norway – 17 December 1855 ) was a Norwegian businessman and politician perhaps best known for designing the flag of Norway.

Thunder Shield ), was a Norwegian nobleman and an eminent naval flag officer in the service of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy.

They reach the pole only to find the Norwegian flag already planted there and a letter from Roald Amundsen asking Scott to deliver it to the King of Norway.

Norwegian Catalina flying boats were stationed at Woodhaven, and a Norwegian flag is still flown in the harbour, from where occasional pleasure sailings operate to Perth and back.

During the last years of his life, Berg worked on a master's thesis on the history of the Norwegian flag, and was instrumental in consolidating all the country's various fandom societies and clubs into a nationwide umbrella organisation, called Hyperion / N4F.

Finnmárkuopmodat, the autonomous entity established by the Finnmark Act has a logo that according to the entity's website " gets it colours from the Sámi and the Norwegian flag, as a symbol that the Finnmark Estate feels related to and responsible for both Sámi, kvens and ethnic Norwegians.

The faculty is one of three Norwegian institutions which offer legal studies, the other two being the law faculties at the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø.

The home of the most notorious Norwegian Gestapo agent, Henry Rinnan, it was also subject to harsh treatment by the occupying powers, including imposition of martial law in October 1942.

After several court judgements in favour of the ISP, the case was finally dropped, with an admission from TONO that under Norwegian law the ISP cannot be compelled to block access to the site.

After their engagement, or more likely marriage under Norwegian law, Anna left with Bothwell.

The leading conservative Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten argued in an editorial that Ossietzky was a criminal who had attacked his country " with the use of methods that violated the law long before Hitler came into power " and that " lasting peace between peoples and nations can only be achieved by respecting the existing laws ".

On June 7, 2006, the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman Bjørn Erik Thon stated that Apple's iTunes Music Store violates Norwegian law.

At birth, she was not in line to the throne, because until 1990, only males could inherit the Norwegian throne ( Salic law ).

The Catholic principle of legitimacy was thus established in the Norwegian order of succession, although Haakon's new law still maintained that illegitimate children could be designated as successor in the absence of any legitimate children or grandchildren — contrary to Catholic principles.

The Norwegian Police Service has an integrated prosecution service in which the Police lawyers ranks require the law degree " juris candidatus " or " master i rettsvitenskap ".

They also argued that it is legal under Norwegian law to make copies of such data for personal use.

Category: Norwegian law

It then becomes Norwegian law from the date stated in the act or decided by the government.

It establishes that Norwegian criminal law, private law and procedural law applies to the island, in addition to other laws that explicitly state they are valid on the island.

Since 5 May 1995, Norwegian law has required all Norwegian activity in Antarctica, including Peter I Island, to follow international environmental law for Antarctica.

The Norwegian law Gulatingsloven was probably put in writing for the first time during his reign.

In his defense, he said if AUF were to follow the law too rigidly, they would only have ended up with a quarter of the membership numbers that the Norwegian Young Conservatives operated with.

He worked in the Norwegian legation in Stockholm's law office from 1943 to 1944, then in the Norwegian government administration-in-exile in London until 1945.

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

City Map of Trondheim in 1898, Norwegian edition

Peary's 1898 – 1902 expedition was darkened by his claim to an 1899 visual discovery of " Jesup Land " west of Ellesmere, leading to his allegation that this was his sighting of Axel Heiberg land prior to its discovery by Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup's expedition, a Peary claim now universally rejected.

It has been translated and reprinted numerous times: it was translated into Norwegian already in 1898, and in Japanese, for example, by Kotoku Shusui in 1909.

In recognition of his services he received a knighthood of the first class of the Norwegian Royal Order of St Olaf in 1898, and was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1899.

As the union with Sweden became less popular, the Norwegian parliament abolished the union badge from the national ( merchant ) and state flags in 1898.

One of the first tourists in Hemsedal was the famous Norwegian polar explorer Fritjof Nansen who visited in 1898 and stayed at the Bjøberg Fjellstue.

The islands are named after Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup, who explored and mapped them from 1898 to 1902 with the vessel Fram, although some were previously inhabited by Inuit people.

Amund Ringnes was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1898.

Johannes Wilhelm Christian Steen ( 22 July 1827, Christiania-1 April 1906, Voss ) was a Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway from 1891 to 1893 and from 1898 to 1902.

* Carl August Wiencke ( 1877 – 1898 ): Norwegian – sailor.

On September 26, 2008 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) granted deeming authority for hospitals to DNV Healthcare Inc. ( DNVHC ), an operating company of Det Norske Veritas ( DNV ), a Norwegian international company that has been operating in the U. S. since 1898.

Already in 1814 the Norwegians instituted a separate flag, this would remain an issue until the union badge was discarded from the Norwegian flag in 1898.

Ole Imerslun Reistad ( 26 June 1898 – 22 December 1949 ) was a Norwegian military officer and accomplished sports person.

Early publications on the Norwegian language controversy were Det norske målstrævs historie ( 1898 ) and Det vitskapelege grunnlage for målstræve ( 1900 ).