The Justice Ministry released the list at 11:30am on the web site for the state police agency known as Kripos. It initially contained 275 names of people registered as missing, a huge reduction from the 1,380 officials earlier had reported.
Within an hour, the list was down to 274 names. They're available here:.
Police said that in addition to the 274 missing, 16 Norwegians had been registered as dead, but they were not yet officially identified.
The list over the missing was expected to include more than 400 known to have been in the areas hit by the tidal waves, along with another 980 believed to have been in the area.
The list over Norwegians believed killed had stood at 21, but Justice Minister Odd Einar Dørum said that was based on eyewitness observations from survivors "who believed they saw their loved ones disappear."
Dørum said the new list of 16 was based on "concrete information."
He and police officials stressed that the lists were not conclusive, and would be continually updated.
Officials said one reason that the list over those missing had fallen so dramatically, was that Foreign Ministry staff had listed the same people several times under slightly different names. Police who took over the job of compiling the lists were thus able to narrow it down considerably.
