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BIBLIOGRAPHIE COLONIALE
Sollied (1918, 1922 A, 1922 B and together with Solberg 1922) (see also Egede 1926). Greenland was, together with Iceland and the Faeroe Islands, under the Norwegian crown up to Jan. 14, 1814, when Denmark at the Kiel conference was forced to solve the union with Norway, but succeeded in separating the said lands from Norway, whereby Greenland came under Denmark (Brinchmann 1921). Originally the Danish colonial area consisted only of the southern part of the west coast, but the districts submitted to Danish administration were later on somewhat enlarged, as in 1894 and in 1905. The current controversy between Denmark and Norway, which particularly concerns East Greenland, dates from 1921, when the Danish government demanded Norway's consent to the extension of Denmark's sovereignty to the whole of Greenland. This demand Norway could not satisfy, as such an extension would affect Norway's economic interests in this part of Greenland, whose only manner of exploitation had been as hunting grounds for Norwegian hunting expeditions (Isachsen 1922, Solberg 1922, 1929, Hambro 1924 B). The question in this way having grown acute, the interest of greater circles was aroused, and numerous papers dealing with Greenland and its history were published (Koht 1924, Isachsen 1925, Raestad 1923), many of them with a form pronouncedly coloured by the political discussion (Anker 1923, Castberg 1923, Hambro 1921, 1924 B, Handagard 1921, 1922 A, 1922 B, 1923, Linvald 1924). The sovereignty question has to this day remained unsolved (Smedal 1928, Bull 1929), but in 1924 an agreement was concluded between the two lands in order to settle some practical questions concerning the hunting and scientific activity in East Greenland (Castberg 1924 A, 1924 B. See also Smedal 1930). SVERDRUP
ISLANDS.
This term has been used as the collective name of the areas discovered and annexed in the name of the King of Norway N of the American continent by the Second Norwegian Arctic