Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography
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| Established | March 28, 1973 |
| Activated | April 1, 1973 |
| Director | Svend Eskildsen |
| Budget (2005) | 232 Million DKK |
| Webpage | www.frv.dk |
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The Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography (RDANH) (Danish: Farvandsvæsenet, short FRV) is the approving authority for navigation systems and buoyage in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. It is part of the Danish combined Search and Rescue Service origination (SAR) and runs 21 coast-rescue stations. It is a department under the Danish Ministry of Defence. The central administration is located in Søkvæsthuset in Christianshavn in Copenhagen, the operationally capability; all over the country.
Further responsibilities include; considers and decides issues concerning wrecks and their salvage in national waters. Running of the Danish Pilotage Service (Lodsvæsenet), which has a monopoly on this service in all Danish territory, and RDANH is also the Danish Ministry of Defence Centre for Operational Oceanography (Center for Operativ Oceanografi), which collects hydrographical and oceanographically data from all national waters, for making charts and maps to the disposal of the Military of Denmark, as well as civilians.
[edit] History
Established April 1, 1973 as Farvandsdirektoratet by merging Fyrvæsenet (Lighthouse Service), Lodsvæsenet (Danish Pilotage Service), Redningsvæsenet (Rescue Service) and Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (Royal Danish Nautical charts archive). The latter was later in 1987 detached again to be merged with the newly formed National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark. All of these services have a long history on their own, reaching back to 1560.
The name changed from Farvandsdirektoratet to Farvandsvæsenet during the late 1970s and 1980s, however Farvandsdirektoratet is still a used and accepted name.
