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culture of saunas in
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declaring independence
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Duchy of
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,
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first parliament in
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having universal suffrage
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landscape of
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member of EU
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place in Russian history
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right to roam in
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Swedish spoken in
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Finland, Gulf of
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,
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Finland Station, St Petersburg
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Finnish language
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Finnish nationalism
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Finse
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fishing industry
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Fitzgerald-Smith corridor
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Fort Fitzgerald (formerly Smith's Landing)
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,
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,
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Fort Smith
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Fortunate Isles –
see
Cape Verde

Fossum, Karin
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Foula
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Freyr
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,
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fulmars
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fur trading
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,
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,
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,
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Gamla (Old) Uppsala
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Geilo
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Gibraltar, Strait of
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glaucous gulls
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Gogol, Nikolai
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gold mining
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,
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,
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,
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golden plovers
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Good Shepherd IV
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Gould, Glenn
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,
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Grænlendinga Saga
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graphite mining
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grayling
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,
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,
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Grayling Lake
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,
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Great Purge of 1930s (Russia)
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Great Greenland Fur Company
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great skuas
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Great Slave Lake
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,
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,
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Green of Mandrup
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,
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Greenland
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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alcoholism in
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climate cooling in
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crop failures in
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early settlers in
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government of
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hunting, culture of
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,
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iron trading in
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land ownership in
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,
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leaving the EC
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mining for metals
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oil industry development
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rapid social change in
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whaling industry
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,
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Greenlandic language
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Group of Seven (artists)
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Guerber, H.A.
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gulags
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,
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Gulf of Alaska
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Gulf Stream
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Gustav Vasa, King of Sweden
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,
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,
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halibut fishing
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
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,
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Hamelin, Louis-Edmond
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,
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Hanseatic League
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Hare Island
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Hay River
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,
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,
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Hellier
(cargo ship)
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,
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Helsinki
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,
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Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
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Herscovici, Alan
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High Level (Canada)
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Hipparchus of Nicaea
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Hitler, Adolf
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Högholmen Island
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,
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Hogmanay Hurricane, Shetland 1991
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Homer (Alaska)
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hooded crows
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Hoswick
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Huftarøy
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Hudson Bay
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Hudson's Bay Company
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Hughes, Ted
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hunting, culture of
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,
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Husavik
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Iceland
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Iceland gulls
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Indian Cabins
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Inuit Circumpolar Conference
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Inuit people
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Ireland, Republic of
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Ireland (Shetland village)
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iron trading
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Jansson, Tove
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Jung, Carl
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Kalevala, The
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,
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Kamchatka
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Karelia
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Kayak Island
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Kenai Fjords National Park
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Kenai Lake
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Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
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Kenai Peninsula
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,
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,
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,
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Kenai River
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,
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Kirov, Sergei
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Klondike gold rush
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Knagg, Jacob Johan
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,
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Kodiak Island
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Kollin, Susan
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Kolyma labour camps
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,
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,
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Koryak people
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Kristensen, Ib
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,
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,
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Kristensen, Lillian
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Kristoffersen, David
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Lake Athabasca
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Lapland buntings
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lapwings
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Larsson, Stieg
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Lascaux caves
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League of Nations
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Lenin, Vladimir
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,
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,
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,
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Leningrad
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,
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reverting to St Petersburg
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siege of, 1941
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see also
St Petersburg

Leopold, Aldo
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Lerwick
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Linköping
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Linnaeus (Carl von Linne)
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Loch of Vatsetter
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Lönnrot, Elias
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Lopez, Barry
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Lynge, Aqqaluk
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Lynge, Finn
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Macfarlane, Robert
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Mackenzie, Alexander
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,
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Mackenzie River
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Maclean, Norman
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Maclean, Wally
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,
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,
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Magadan
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,
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,
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Magnus, Bishop Johannes
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Magnus, Olaus
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Malleson, Lady Constance
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Mankell, Henning
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Mariehamn
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Martin, Edward
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McGill University, Montreal
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McPhee, John
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Mediaeval Warm Period
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Medvedev, Dmitry
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Melville, Herman
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Métis people
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Meyer, Eva
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Middlesbrough
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Mongolia
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moose
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Moose Pass
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Moravian missionaries
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Moscow
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,
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,
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Mounds of the Kings, Uppsala
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Mount Redoubt
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,
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Mountain Portage Rapids (Slave River)
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,
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,
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,
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Mousa
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Broch of
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,
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muskeg forest
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Muskeg Express
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Mutnovsky volcano
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Nanortalik
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Napoleonic Wars
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Narsaq
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,
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,
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Narsarsuaq
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narwhal tusks, trade in
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,
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NATO
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Nenet people
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Nesbø, Jo
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Nevsky Prospekt, St Petersburg
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Nicolas I, Tsar
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,
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Ninilchik
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,
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,
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Njal's Saga
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Nordic extremism
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‘nordicity'
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,
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Norfolk
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Norman Wells
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Norse gods
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Norse people
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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North Pole
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,
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North Sea
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,
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North Star (Polaris)
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,
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Northwest Passage
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Northwest Territories
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,
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,
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,
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Norway
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,
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gaining independence from Sweden
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joining NATO
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oil wealth of
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terrorism in
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,
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nostalgia
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,
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,
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,
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Nuuk
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,
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Odin
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,
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,
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oil extraction
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,
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,
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,
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Okhotsk, Sea of
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,
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Ordnance Survey
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Oslo
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bombings in
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University of
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Viking Ship Museum
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Ougadougou
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Our Lady of Kazan, Cathedral of (St Petersburg)
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,
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Out Skerries
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Oxford
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Pacific Ocean
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pack ice
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paganism
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Paige, Harry W.
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Palace Square, St Petersburg
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Palme, Olaf, assassination of
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Paulette, François
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,
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Peace River
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Peace Valley
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peat
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,
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,
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Pelican Rapids (Slave River)
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pelicans
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,
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,
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,
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penguins
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Peter the Great, Tsar
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Petrograd
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see also
St Petersburg

Petropavlosk
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Picts
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polar bears
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,
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Polaris (North Star)
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,
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Port Radium
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Prague
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Presley, Elvis
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Ptolemy, Claudius
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,
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Pushkin, Alexander
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,
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,
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,
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Putin, Vladimir
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Qaqortoq
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,
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Qaqqarsuasik
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Quassik
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Quebec nationalism
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Quendale
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Ramsholmen Island
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,
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Rapids of the Drowned (Slave River)
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,
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Raseborg Castle
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Rasmussen, Knud
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ravens
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Red Deer
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reindeer
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,
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Repin, Ilya
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,
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Repino
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,
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Resurrection Bay
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right to roam (
allemansratt
)
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River Fyris
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,
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,
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