Scandinavia does not include the remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen as of 2002.
 The name Scandinavia would then mean "dangerous island", which is considered to refer to the treacherous sandbanks surrounding Scania
=== Scandinavian unions ===DenmarkNorway as a historiographical name refers to the former political union consisting of the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, including the Norwegian dependencies of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands

