ÅLESUND

ôˈləsoon, city (1995 pop. 36,720), Møre og Romsdal county, W Norway, on 3 islands in the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Storfjord. It is a major commercial and fishing port. Products include clothing, processed fish, and dairy goods. Of note is a nearby stone church (early 13th cent.). The name was formerly spelled Aalesund.

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books on: Alesund  - 29 results

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The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament
Book by Hilmar Rommetvedt; F. Cass, 2003
Subjects: Norway--Politics And Government--1945-, Norway--Stortinget--History
...for a coalition between Kristiansand/Mandal and Alesund. The MPs supporting Alesund could have voted for the Kristiansand/Mandal...supporting Kristiansand/Mandal could have voted for Alesund when Snorre was debated. Transcripts of the parliamentary...
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The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of Us Management Models
Book by Matthias Kipping, Ove Bjarnar; Routledge, 1998
...for employees within retailing, situated in the town of Alesund and established in co-operation with the Alesund Handelsgymnas, a secondary commercial school in the town. The Alesund Handelsgymnas had been established as the result of joint...
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Planning and Urban Growth in the Nordic Countries
Book by Thomas Hall; E & FN Spon, 1991
Subjects: City Planning--Scandinavia--History, Urbanization--Scandinavia--History
...people lost their homes. In January 1904 Alesund, another coastal town, was razed to...the outskirts. After the fire of 1904, Alesund was rebuilt in brick and stone, on the...Figure 4.14 shows the developed parts of Alesund in 1929. We can see many compromise solutions...
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Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity
Book by Chris Goertzen; University Of Chicago Press, 1997
Subjects: Fiddle Tunes--Norway--History And Criticism, Fiddling, Folk Music--Norway--History And Criticism, Music--Competitions--Norway
...in complaints after a 1902 contest in Alesund, on the northwest coast, in the broad...dissatisfaction after the next contest in Alesund, in 1903: "It was obvious, especially...art style" triumphing in contests in Alesund Aarset and Flem 1991b:209 . What was...
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From Day to Day
Book by Odd Nansen, Katherine John; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1949
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, Norwegian, World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners And Prisons, German
...Bergen and some from Trondheim. Those from Trondheim were the Alesund gang. They were on board the boat that was taken and that...then. There cannot possibly be much hope for them. The Alesund men actually there were men from all over the country had informers...
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journal articles on: Alesund  - 3 results

 
 
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The Family Business Tradition in Britain and Norway: Modernization and Reinvention?
Journal article by Age Mariussen, Jane Wheelock, Susan Baines; International Studies of Management & Organization, Vol. 27, 1997
Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises--Research, Norway--Business and industry, United Kingdom--Business and industry
...solutions.<p/> In the Norwegian study, selected firms in two fishing communities (Maloy on the western coast south of Alesund, and Ballstad on the Lofoten Islands) were studied as part of a comprehensive analysis of restructuring in coastal regions...
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Micro-Robots Based Learning Environments for Continued Education in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Journal article by Pascal Leroux, Martial Vivet; Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2000
Subjects: Continuing education--Equipment and supplies, Educational software--Product information, Employee training--Equipment and supplies, Instructional materials industry--Product information, Roboteach (Educational/training software)--Authorship, Robots--Usage, Small business--Training
...qualified adults in a computer integrated enterprise: An example of inservice training. Proceedings of IFIP /TC3 meeting (Alesund, Norway). North Holland: 261-272. Vivet, M. (1993). La reception des productions des apprenants: Une phase essentielle...
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Styles of Sedimentation beneath Svalbard Valley Glaciers under Changing Dynamic and Thermal Regimes
Journal article by Neil F. Glasser, Michael J. Hambrey; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 158, 2001
Subjects: Geology, Glaciers, Sediments, Svalbard Islands
...balance of Svalbard glaciers under the ARCICE Thematic Programme. We thank Nick Cox at the NERC Arctic Research Station in Ny-Alesund for logistical support and David Graham, Nick Midgley, Andrew Mellor, Rick Matthews and Phillipa Noble for assistance in...


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magazine articles on: Alesund  - 15 results

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Alesund: Norway's Art Nouveau Mecca
Magazine article by Richard J. Litell; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 90, Summer 2002
Subjects: Alesund Norway, Architecture, Cities, Geographic profiles
Alesund: Norways Art Nouveau Mecca by Richard J. Litell THE LAST TIME I VISITED ALESUND I MET A HARBOR SEAL named Nemo. It was an entirely...characteristic of what one might experience in Alesund-a town of surprising variety and broad appeal...
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Coming Together
Magazine article by Henry Miles; The Architectural Review, Vol. 209, May 2001
Subjects: Alesund, Norway--Buildings, facilities, etc., Architecture--Norway, Universities and colleges--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...amalgamated college for young adults on the west coast of Norway. Alesund is a busy little port with a strong nautical tradition on the west coast of Norway above Bergen. To foster it, Alesund College was set up as an organization in 1994 to offer studies...
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Norway's 'Jugendstil' Town
Magazine article by Stephen Henkin; World and I, Vol. 13, September 1998
Subjects: Art nouveau (Architecture)--Norway, Norway--Buildings and facilities
...Barcelona, better think again. Tiny Alesund on Norways western coast has some of the best Jugendstil around. The town of Alesund on Norways rugged western coast boast...style in the world. Upon encountering Alesund for the first time, tourists, especially...
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Norway's 'Silver Treasure': Herring Feeds the Norwegian Soul
Magazine article by Stephen Henkin; World and I, Vol. 13, November 1998
Subjects: Fisheries--Norway, Herring--Social aspects, Norway
...fishing boats in the crowded harbor at Alesund and lives in nearby Hafrsfjord. Norwegian...to determine which of the twenty or so Alesund-based companies are offering the best...crewed by one to four--operate out of Alesund and the surrounding county of More og...
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The Arctic Killers: The Scramble for the Arctic's Oil and Gas Has Begun. Marek Kohn Report Exclusively from Svalbard on How in This Most Sensitive of Environments, the Plunderers Count on Climate Change for Help
Magazine article by Marek Kohn; New Statesman, Vol. 136, August 13, 2007
Subjects: Arctic--Environmental aspects, Climate change--Evaluation, Climatic changes--Evaluation, Energy industries--Environmental aspects, Energy industry--Environmental aspects, Environmental degradation--United Kingdom, Ice caps--Evaluation, Industrial development--Environmental aspects, Industrialization--Environmental aspects, Pollution--Evaluation, Svalbard--Environmental aspects
...already inescapable up here. At Ny-Alesund, a cluster of international scientific...as the international scientists at Ny-Alesund do, eating together in the mess hall...the engineers and the forests. At Ny-Alesund, the northernmost settlement in the world...
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newspaper articles on: Alesund  - 94 results

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HOLIDAY 2001:sail the Seven Seas
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 18, 2001
...from pounds 639 Ports of Call: Harwich, Alesund, Olden, Flam Gudvangen Bergen ICELAND...Kirkwall, Reykjavik, Akureyri, Torshavn, Alesund, Hellesylt Geiranger Bergen TREASURES...Leknes, Honningsvag North Cape, Alta, Alesund, Hellesylt Geiranger, Bergen NORWEGIAN...
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What a Cool Summer Vacation Crystal Lake Native Spends Time in Arctic Doing Research
Newspaper article by Elizabeth Harmon; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 16, 2005
...polar research facility known as Ny-Alesund, located on the Norwegian island of Svalbard...Foundation. Cumpston traveled to Ny-Alesund with NIU professor of geology Ross Powell...contend with. Cumpstons orientation at Ny-Alesund included swimming lessons in sub-freezing...
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I've Caught the Norway Bug; Breathtaking Fjords and Lack of Tummy Upsets Wow Elinor Goodman
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 29, 2010
...in the hotels enormous spa. I flew to Alesund. It is in a magnificent position on the...Breakfast arrives across the windswept jetty. Alesund is one of three islands connected by tunnels...flysas.com) flies from Heathrow to Alesund via Oslo. Book by August 30 for pounds...
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Living Travel: Sea Cuts Up Rough, but a Cruise Is Still Balm to the Soul; George Macintyre Discovered to His Delight That a Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines Trip to the Norwegian Fjords with His Wife Was the Perfect Antidote to the Stress and Pressures of Putting Their House Together Again after the Recent Flood
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 8, 2007
Subjects: Cruise lines, Olsen Cruise Lines
...by boat at Runde during our stopover at Alesund to a hike on the Nigardsbreen glacier...were booked on four of these trips - to Alesund and its surrounding area (the bird watching...comfort of the passengers, we reached Alesund three hours late. Protected by the fjord...
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Fjord Fiesta
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), October 2, 2005
...mountains rising dramatically on both sides. Alesund, our next port of call, is a town with...the impression of a fairytale town but Alesund also has a thriving shopping centre as...mountains rising dramatically on both sides. Alesund, our next port of call, is a town with...
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encyclopedia articles on: Alesund  - 6 results

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New Alesund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NEW ALESUND town, Spitsbergen: see Ny-Alesund . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Ny-Ålesund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NY-ALESUND nu -o l soon New Alesund, town, on Kongsfjorden, NW Spitsbergen island, Svalbard. It is a coal-mining settlement. Ny-Alesund was (1926) the base of polar flights by Richard Byrd, in an...
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Aalesund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AALESUND see Alesund , Norway. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Ålesund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALESUND o l soon, city (1995 pop. 36,720), More og Romsdal county, W Norway, on 3 islands in the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of...
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Kongsfjorden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...KONGSFJORDEN kongs fyor d n Kings Bay, inlet of the Arctic Ocean, 14 mi (23 km) long, NW Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Ny-Alesund is on the inlet. The scenic fjord is often visited by tourist vessels. ____________________ Copyright...
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