Luxembourg, May 16, 2012: Northland Resources S.A. (TSX: NAU, OSE: NAUR and NAUR
R,  Frankfurt: NPK -  "Northland" or "the  Company") announces that Carl-Michael
Raihle  was elected to the  Board of Directors at  the Annual General Meeting in
Luxembourg, May 16, 2012.

Carl-Michael  Raihle has  vast experience  from the  metal industry and has held
several  senior management positions. He is  currently President of Ovako Tube &
Ring, a Swedish specialty steel producer, since December 2011 and also President
and  owner of the consulting firm  Creation since September 2011. Prior to that,
Mr.  Raihle served as  Executive Vice President  and Chief Technology Officer of
the  Luvata group, a Finnish metal  component producer. Between 2003 and 2005 he
was  President of Outokumpu  Fabrication Technologies. He  has also held several
senior   positions  with  Process  Automation,  Outokumpu  Copper  Products  and
Outokumpu American Brass.

Mr  Raihle  holds  a  PhD.  in  Metallurgy  from  Kungliga Tekniska högskolan in
Stockholm.

The  appointment of Mr. Raihle  as a board member  is effective as of today, May
16, 2012.

Matti  Kinnunen, Tuomo Mäkelä, Stuart Pettifor and Birger Solberg were reelected
as Board members. Anders Hvide was reinstated as Chairman of the Board.

"Anders Hvide"
Executive Chairman
Northland Resources S.A.


For more information, please contact:
Karl-Axel Waplan, President and CEO: +46 705 104 239
Anders Antonsson, Vice President Investor Relations: +46 709 994 970
Marguerite Manshreck-Head, Investors Relations, Canada: +1 647 224 7882

Or visit our website: www.northland.eu

Northland  is a  development-stage mining  company with  a portfolio of iron ore
projects  in northern Sweden and Finland. The Company's Kaunisvaara Project will
initially  exploit two magnetite  iron ore deposits  in Sweden. The process will
yield a high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate. The construction of
the  Kaunisvaara project  in Sweden  is well  underway and  mining is planned to
start  in  the  fourth  quarter  of  2012. Northland  has  entered into off-take
contracts  for  the  entire  production  from  Kaunisvaara.  The Company is also
preparing  a Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") for its Hannukainen Iron Oxide
Copper  Gold ("IOCG") Project in Kolari, northern Finland and for its Pellivuoma
deposit 15 km from the Kaunisvaara process plant.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.


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