Norway
Norway (Norge) (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"]) was a nation in Scandinavia. (AUDIO: Project Lazarus [+]Loading...["Project Lazarus (audio story)"]) The Fourth Doctor once told Romana II was called the "Land of the Midnight Sun". According to him, the sun shone "all night there". (PROSE: A Midsummer's Nightmare [+]Loading...["A Midsummer's Nightmare (short story)"]) Norway bordered Sweden to the east. (TV: The Bounty Hunter [+]Loading...["The Bounty Hunter (TV story)"]) Svalbard and Bjornoya were territories of Norway. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Blood of the Cybermen (video game)"])
Norwegian was spoken in Norway. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])
Geography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Its main cities included Oslo, the capital (AUDIO: The Valley of Death [+]Loading...["The Valley of Death (audio story)"], TV: The Seeds of Death [+]Loading...["The Seeds of Death (TV story)"]) Bergen, and Stavange. (TV: The Lie of the Land [+]Loading...["The Lie of the Land (TV story)"]) Norway shared it's western coast with the North Sea. (TV: The Lie of the Land [+]Loading...["The Lie of the Land (TV story)"])
The Skaggerak Strait was located near the coast of Norway. (PROSE: Exodus Code [+]Loading...["Exodus Code (novel)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early history[[edit] | [edit source]]
Olaf became king of Norway at some point after 991, and reigned until his death in 1000. (AUDIO: The Battle [+]Loading...["The Battle (audio story)"])
Harald Hardrada was king of Norway in the 11th century. In 1066, he led an invasion of England but was defeated by King Harold Godwinson. (TV: "The Watcher" [+]Part of The Time Meddler, Loading...{"namedep":"The Watcher (1)","1":"The Time Meddler (TV story)"}, PROSE: A History of Humankind [+]Loading...["A History of Humankind (novel)"])
Norway gained independence in 1814. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse [+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)"])
20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
Norway was a part of World War II. By August 1940, they had been conquered by Nazi Germany. (AUDIO: Their Finest Hour [+]Loading...["Their Finest Hour (audio story)"]) The London Controlling Section (LCS) later worked on the deception tactic Operation Graffham, aimed at convincing Germany that the Allies intended to invade Norway. (AUDIO: Operation: Hellfire [+]Loading...["Operation: Hellfire (audio story)"])
Norway was briefly invaded by Capranom in December 1965. They were dealt with by the Tenth Doctor and Heather McCrimmon. (COMIC: The Goats of Christmas Past [+]Loading...["The Goats of Christmas Past (comic story)"])
At the time of the attempted Luron invasion of Earth in 1979, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was on a fishing trip in Oslo. In his absence, General Reginald Hemmings was the acting commander of the British division of UNIT. (AUDIO: The Valley of Death [+]Loading...["The Valley of Death (audio story)"])
On 21 January 1981, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II visited Norway. (COMIC: A Midsummer's Nightmare [+]Loading...["A Midsummer's Nightmare (short story)"])
21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2001, the Sixth Doctor took Cassandra Schofield to Norway after she became a vampire. (AUDIO: Project Twilight [+]Loading...["Project Twilight (audio story)"])
In 2004, the Sixth Doctor returned to Norway to give her a cure for her vampirism, only to find that she was now working for the Forge. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus [+]Loading...["Project Lazarus (audio story)","Project: Lazarus"])
By 2007, H.C. Clements had an office in Norway. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])
At 8:40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September 2009, Norway was among the numerous places across Earth in which RTAs occurred as a result of the 456 compelling every human child to suddenly stop and proclaim their message: "we are coming." (TV: Children of Earth: Day One [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)"])
In 2010, Jo Jones and her grandson Santiago Jones were due to take a hovercraft as transport to Norway. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"])
In 2018, a mirror in Norway acted as a portal between N-Space and the Solitract plane, with an anti-zone forming in between. (TV: It Takes You Away [+]Loading...["It Takes You Away (TV story)"])
After being taken to the Minotaur's prison ship, Howie Spragg initially believed that he had been abducted to a government building in Norway, as he believed in a conspiracy that the United States operated several cities in the Norwegian mountains. According to Howie, the Earth was on a collision course with another planet and these cities were built so that rich people would have somewhere safe to go. (TV: The God Complex [+]Loading...["The God Complex (TV story)"])
In the 21st century, Norway went to war with the United Kingdom. (PROSE: Second Chances [+]Loading...["Second Chances (ST short story)"])
Far future[[edit] | [edit source]]
At some point in the far future, a group of Purzithroan Vagabonds stole seeds from the Terran Seed Vault in Norway. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond scared them away. (COMIC: Pirates of the Seven Seeds [+]Loading...["Pirates of the Seven Seeds (comic story)"])
