Her final operational task involved trials in Norway, and the ship's company of 35 enjoyed their final foreign run ashore in Stavanger. |
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By air SAS Scandinavian Airlines offers daily non-stop flights from Heathrow to both Oslo and Stavanger. |
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She grew up in Stavanger, Norway's third-largest city, and met her husband when he was stationed there for military training. |
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Passenger catamarans run from Bergen south to Haugesund and Stavanger, and north to Sognefjord and Nordfjord. |
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Among other ports of call in Spitsbergen are Longyearbyen and Ny-Alesund, along with the Norwegian ports of Stavanger, the Lofoten Islands, Tromso, Geiranger and Bergen. |
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According to tradition, Harald Fairhair unified them into one in 872 after the Battle of Hafrsfjord in Stavanger, thus becoming the first king of a united Norway. |
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South of Stavanger, the coast softens, the islands become fewer. |
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