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The Atlantic and Arctic oceans border Norway; this closeness has given the Norwegians a long shipping tradition. Of its 125,053 square miles, over 70 percent is uninhabitable, 25 percent is forests, and just 3 percent is suitable for farming or grazing. Norway has always had to rely on its connection with the oceans for growth and has developed what historian Eilif Paulson has called a high degree of “sea mindedness” (1961:2).
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Burns, J.M. (2003). Norwegian Shipping. In: The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor. The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0209-8_3
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