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Forlandet National Park

Habitat and Species Management Area

Forlandet National Park covers the island of Prins Karls Forland and its surrounding waters on the Svalbard archipelago, established by royal resolution on 1 June 1973. It protects 616 square kilometers of land and 4,031 square kilometers of sea, totaling about 4,647 square kilometers, and is recognized for hosting the world's most northerly range of seals and the world's most northerly population of common guillemot. Its Forlandsoyane Bird Sanctuary is a Ramsar-listed wetland and the whole park qualifies as an Important Bird Area for breeding barnacle geese, common eiders and black guillemots, and it also holds archaeological remains left by Norwegian and Russian hunters and whalers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
International Designation
Ramsar Site (Wetland of International Importance) 1
Governing Body
Governing Body (category)
Directorate for Nature Management 1
Governing Body
Directorate for Nature Management 1
Sources
1. Forlandet National Park (Wikipedia)
  • lead section
    Forlandet National Park lies on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
  • Lead section
    Forlandet National Park lies on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The park was created by a royal resolution on 1 June 1973 and covers the entire island of Prins Karls Forland and well as the sea around it.
  • entity-description, international-designation ramsar-site
    Its Forlandsoyane Bird Sanctuary is a Ramsar-listed wetland and the whole park qualifies as an Important Bird Area for breeding barnacle geese, common eiders and black guillemots, and it also holds archaeological remains left by Norwegian and Russian hunters and whalers.
  • Wikipedia infobox, governing_body field
    Directorate for Nature Management
  • Wikipedia infobox, governance-type government
    Directorate for Nature Management
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Wikidata: Forlandet National Park
Wikidata Q1437363, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Wikidata: Norway
On Continent: Europe, Wikidata item for Norway, property P30 (continent)View the Source
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