Outer Fringe Zone

Abstract

Norway’s Outer Fringe Zone occurs in six separate sections which are distributed throughout the Discontinuous Settlement Region in a complex pattern (Fig. 1). In the southern part of the nation the four sections are inland and are generally oval shaped with one axis about 55 km. (35 mi.) long and the other from 40 to 160 km. (25 to 100 mi.). North of the latitude of Namsos the fifth part is inland and linear, being 40–80 km. (25 to 50 mi.) wide and merging over the border with the same zone in Sweden. But the last part, to the north of Bodö, is both coastal and inland, has a width of 65 to more than 160 km. (40 to 100 mi.), a length of 725 km. (450 mi.) NE-SW, and also is tied to Swedish counterparts to the east (Fig. 15).