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    period" marked by relatively warm climate and anoxic oceans, along with marine transgression. Before the start of the Cryogenian, around 750 Ma, the cratons...
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    Norway–Russia border (category Sør-Varanger)
    land border between Sør-Varanger Municipality, Norway, and Pechengsky District, Russia, and a 23.2-kilometer (14.4 mi) marine border in the Varangerfjord...
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  • Guard Service Moldovan Border Police Royal Marechaussee Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger Border Guard (Poland) (Polish: Straż Graniczna) Serviço de Estrangeiros...
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  • and harbor at Narvik Bardufoss Heggelia Setermoen Øverbygd Harstad Sør-Varanger Porsanger Alta Commander Land Forces North Norway (LANDNON), commanded...
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  • Recte (Latin for "Right the first time") Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger (Garrison of Sør-Varanger) Jegerkompaniet (Arctic Ranger Company): Agmine Consectamur...
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    Coastal Ranger Command) Artillerijeger (Norwegian Army) Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger (Borderguard, Norwegian Army) ISTAR battalion (Norwegian Army) ISTAR HQ...
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    fjords; arctic tundra only in the extreme northeast (largely found on the Varanger Peninsula). Frozen ground all year can also be found in the higher mountain...
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    Neoproterozoic sequence throughout Norway includes a tillite, a record of the Varanger ice age which occurred between roughly 630-590 Ma, the final part of the...
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  • beret" (both Norwegian and English lyrics) is about the Garrison of Sør-Varanger (GSV). They monitor the border between Norway and Russia 24/7. Their motto...
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    drifted south. Earth subsequently underwent a series of glaciations – the Varanger (c. 650 Mya, also known as Snowball Earth) and the Rapitan and Ice Brook...
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  • Russian: Общий район) was a Russo-Norwegian condominium comprising Sør-Varanger Municipality and the Pechengsky District from 1684 until 1826. Anglo-Egyptian...
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  • the Norwegian zoologist Robert Collett with the type locality given as Varanger Fjord in northern Norway. The specific name honours Collett's fellow Norwegian...
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    includes ranger troops providing ISTAR for their own units. Garrison of Sør-Varanger (Border Rangers) – an infantry battalion consisting of conscripts trained...
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  • Øvre Pasvik National Park (category Sør-Varanger)
    located in the southeastern part of the Pasvikdalen valley in southern Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Covering an area of 119 square...
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    Fleet conducted an exercise in which cruiser Marshal Ustinov sailed in Varanger Fjord in the area of the Russia–Norway maritime border, becoming the first...
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    reduced methane levels led, during the Huronian, Sturtian and Marinoan/Varanger Ice Ages, to a world that very nearly became a solid "snowball". These...
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    near Norway. On the evening of 7 June, the Norwegian Garnisonen i Sør-Varanger garrison heard the noise of powerful engines coming from the manoeuvres...
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    invading German tanks, with limited success. 1943–1945: The United States Marine Corps used dogs, donated by their American owners, in the Pacific theatre...
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    while Arent Christian Dahl experimented with an explosive harpoon in Varanger Fjord (1857–1860). In 1863 Svend Foyn invented a harpoon with a flexible...
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    one parish (sokn) within the municipality of Berlevåg. It is part of the Varanger prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. Berlevåg Airport is...
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    Police State Border Guard State Border Guard Service Police Garrison of Sør-Varanger Policja Border Guard Romanian Border Police Bureau of Border and Alien...
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    territory covered by the agreement with Norway Norway Finnmark county: Sør-Varanger Municipality, within a zone of 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the border +...
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    be correlated with outcrops on the Varanger Peninsula which together form the Timan-Varanger belt. The Timan-Varanger belt consists of Neoproterozoic (late...
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    and the limits of Norwegian settlement would be pushed eastwards to Sør-Varanger Municipality, making Tromsø lose its character as a "frontier town".[self-published...
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    countries retained a 195.7-kilometer-long (121.6 mi) land border between Sør-Varanger Municipality and Murmansk Oblast. There was only one legal crossing point...
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    probably he made this mistake during Foyn's whaling operations in the Varanger Fjord between 1868 and 1885." It has formerly been known as the little...
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  • citizens formed another whaling company and hunted whales from a site at the Varanger fjord where the Germans had initially established themselves. After a court...
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    Varangerfjorden, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) off the coast of the mainland Varanger Peninsula. It is located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of the village...
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    Klippenvåg (1913 in Lurøy – 1994) a Norwegian politician, Mayor of Sør-Varanger in 1940's & 50's Herluf Nygaard (1916 in Lurøy – 2001) a Norwegian military...
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    London. 20 August 1953. col B, p. 5. "Ship Card#938". Finnish Mercantile Marine Database. Retrieved 14 February 2024. Gröner, Erich (1993). Die deutschen...
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