1988 In Norway
Events in the year 1988 in Norway. Incumbents * List of Norwegian monarchs, Monarch – Olav V * Heads of government of Norway, Prime Minister – Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party) Events * May 6 – Widerøe Widerøe Flight 710, Flight 710, a De Havilland Canada Dash 7, Dash 7, crashes in Torghatten, Norway in heavy fog, killing all 36 passengers in the worst-ever Dash 7 accident. * February 23 – Edvard Munch's painting "Vampire" was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo. * July – Seal hunting inspector Odd F. Lindberg submits a highly critical report on the conditions of the hunt. With the national and international attention that follows this becomes arguably the biggest news story in Norway this yea* August – 4 people are killed in the Farsund shooting. * August 15 – 15 people are killed in the Måbødalen bus accident. * August 21 – The Stolen Munch painting "Vampire" is retrieved. * December 5 – TVNorge, the first advertising-supported N ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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