👉 Norland is a town in the Dutch province of Friesland, located on the coast of the North Sea. It is also known as Norland Island, named after the Norwegian explorer and naturalist Jacob Norland who made several expeditions to the Faroe Islands during the mid-19th century. The town was founded in 1873 by the Norwegian explorer and naturalist Carl Norland. He had been a member of the Norwegian expedition that explored the North Sea in the