VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (FRANKFURT: NBS)(OSLO: NAUR), is pleased to provide an update on Northland's drill programs on its iron-copper-gold projects in northern Sweden and Finland.

Northland's field teams are having an exceptionally busy winter drill season, with seven drill rigs currently turning on the Company's projects. Drilling is underway at the Tapuli-Stora Sahavaara projects and recently started at the Pellivuoma magnetite project. Additional drilling is scheduled for the Salmivaara project in late February, depending on the granting of permits.

Pellivuoma Iron Project

Drilling has started at the Pellivuoma magnetite project in Sweden, which is about 15km west of the Stora Sahavaara and Tapuli project area. Pellivuoma was discovered in 1919 by Nordsvenska Malmfalt. Between 1963-1966, the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) completed magnetic and gravity surveys and 13 diamond drill holes defining a magnetic anomaly roughly 900m by 400m trending WNW-ESE. They also included the deposit in their report "Iron Ore Inventory Programme 1963-1972 in Norbotton County".

Geologically, Pellivuoma is a tightly folded, vertically dipping body. The SGU estimated the iron ore resources to a depth of 200m at ca. 43.5Mt @ 32.7% Fe with trace copper. Their resource estimate was based on a combination of drill data and geophysical modelling. The reader is cautioned that this is an historic resource and is not compliant with NI43-101. Northland has not yet completed the work necessary to confirm the resource figures. As such they cannot be relied upon.

Northland's management regards Pellivuoma as a satellite target to the Stora Sahavaara-Tapuli bodies. As part of the planned drilling at Pellivuoma, Northland will twin two of the holes completed in the 1960s by the SGU. Very little material remains from key holes stored in SGU core archives, hence the need to twin certain holes.

Stora Sahavaara-Tapuli Area

Metallurgical drilling is underway at Tapuli with four rigs currently working and a fifth expected soon. The drilling will provide a bulk sample of 25 tonnes of magnetite drill core for pilot scale tests for flowsheet development and help to outline any variation in the mineralogy within the magnetite body.

Salmivaara

In 2007, Northland drilled 6 holes at Salmivaara (1,780m). The drilling encountered a previously unknown magnetite body beneath the 2 known bodies at Salmivaara. An 11-hole follow up drill program has been designed to provide more detail on the known magnetite bodies, scheduled to kick off in mid February or earlier.

Hannukainen-Area

Earlier this year four rigs were allocated to Hannukainen to provide material for additional metallurgical testwork and to provide infill detail for Northland's geological model. The rigs were recently relocated to the Tapuli project.

Qualified Person

The technical information in this release was prepared under the supervision of Mr. David Cass, who is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, and a "Qualified Person" in accordance with National Instrument 43-101.

About Northland (www.northlandresourcesinc.com)

Northland is a well-structured, debt free junior exploration company with a portfolio of high quality iron, gold, and base metal exploration projects in Sweden and Finland.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Buck Morrow

NORTHLAND RESOURCES INC.

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Contacts: Northland Resources Inc. Buck Morrow President Toll Free: 1-866-719-8962 Northland Resources Inc. Ralph Rushton Investor Relations - North America Toll Free: 1-866-719-8962 Website: www.northlandresourcesinc.com

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