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It was named in 1991 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Captain Søren Berntsen, a Norwegian whaler who established Husvik whaling station for Tonsberg Hvalfangeri and became its first manager in 1910; later Master of SS Orwell, a whaling factory ship.
As a wedding gift Blanche received the province of Tunsberg in Norway and Lödöse in Sweden as fiefs; Tunsberg was exchanged in 1353 to Bohus, Marstrand, Elvyssel, Ranerike and Borgsyssel.
In addition to Oslo, Campus Kristiania offers education in Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Tønsberg and Drammen and has approximately 70000 students.
This area was also significant in the sinking of the German cruiser Blücher in 1940, as the location of the Husvik Battery of Oscarsborg Fortress.
In 1903, the steamship Stadshauptmand Schwartz carried regular traffic and provided a link between the Kongsberg Railway (Kongsbergbanen) and the Tønsberg–Eidsfoss Line.
These were Oslo, Tønsberg, Bergen, Trondheim and Båhus, each under the administration of a separate fehirde.
It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Carl Anton Larsen, who named it for Svend Foyn, a Norwegian whaler of Tønsberg whose invention of the grenade harpoon greatly facilitated modern whaling.
Started a trading post/store in Ålabodarna, and later on the island Hven, Husvik.
She has worked both in the trade unions and as first consultant and office leader at the Research Council of Norway, as well as lector at Eik Teacher Academy in Tønsberg.
Henning (Tønsberg) Jakhelln (born 22 March 1939) is a Norwegian legal academic, and Professor Emeritus of Law (labour law) at the University of Oslo.
More recent inhabitants include the BSES expedition of December 2003, who used it as a base camp for a number of scientific and exploratory projects.
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As with Leith, Stromness, and Prince Olav Harbour, the whaling station has been declared by the South Georgia Government as being too dangerous to visit, due to the danger from collapsing buildings and asbestos.
Husvik is a populated area located east of the city of Tønsberg, south of Klopp and Vallø in Norway.
The local newspaper Tønsbergs Blad in Tønsberg, Norway similarly used Kult in relation to the disappearance of a boy called Andreas Hammer on July 1, 1994.
Born in Tønsberg, the son of a bailiff, he gained little respect as a priest in Christiania, owing to his libidinous lifestyle.
Kamfjord was awarded the «Urijazz» in Tønsberg 1987, has been engaged as jamkomp at Jazz festivals both in Kongsberg and Molde, has participated in Susanne Fuhr's Billie Holiday Performance 1990-91, and has since 1992 been a member of the local groups «D.E.E. Quartet» (Dag Einar Eilertsen) and «Kjernefamilien», besides collaboration with Odd Børretzen and Lars Martin Myhre, including the album «Noen ganger er det all right» (1995), and at Moldejazz in 1996.
Krog, Hildur; Østhagen, Haavard; Tønsberg, Tor (1994) Lavflora. Norske busk- og bladlav (Oslo) ISBN 82-00-41445-0
Per Arneberg (1901 – 1981) was a Norwegian poet, prosaist and translator, born in Tønsberg.
Johnsen played club football in Norway, Turkey, and England for Sem, Stokke, Eik-Tønsberg, Lyn, Lillestrøm, Beşiktaş, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Vålerenga.
Søylen Eiendom is the owner of several properties in Oslo, Tønsberg and Moss in Norway as well as in Rostock, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.
There had been an agreement, the Tønsberg Concord (Sættargjerden in Tønsberg) signed in 1277 between King Magnus VI of Norway and Jon Raude, the Archbishop of Nidaros confirming certain privileges of the clergy, the freedom of episcopal elections and similar matters.
The site had probably been named after two Viking Era mounds, which tradition links to two sons of King Harald I, Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, who was king in Vestfold, and his half-brother, Sigrød Haraldsson, king of Trondheim.
The Vestfold Line runs from Drammen Station to Eidanger Station, through three counties, Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark, and nine municipalities, Drammen Sande, Holmestrand, Re, Horten, Tønsberg, Stokke, Larvik and Porsgrunn.