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Northland Reports Barsele Drill Results

Buck Morrow, President of Northland Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: NAU)(FWB: NBS)(NOTC: NAUR) ("Northland"), is pleased to announce the results of the most recent drilling at the Central Zone of its 100%-owned Barsele gold project in Sweden. Five holes were completed in the program which was cut short by the spring thaw.

The best result was from hole 06005 which returned 2.97 g/t Au over 19m from 107m downhole. A full table of significant results is given below:

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Hole No.     From            To     Interval(i)     Au g/t
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06001      175.00        195.00          20.00        1.77
06002      165.00        173.00           8.00        1.29
06003                   No significant results
06004      164.00        175.00          11.00        2.42
 and       203.90        215.20          11.30        2.24
06005      107.00        126.00          19.00        2.97
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(i)Not true width. The true width is estimated to be 80%
of the downhole interval.

In March 2006 prior to this drill program, Northland completed a NI43-101 resource calculation for the Barsele gold project (see press release dated March 1, 2006). Using a 0.7 g/t Au cut off the resources are:

- Indicated resources of 393,324 ounces of gold contained in 7,624,627 tonnes grading 1.6 g/t Au

- Inferred resources of 437,041 ounces of gold contained in 9,206,020 tonnes @ 1.52 g/t Au.

A map showing the collar locations of the most recent drill holes will be posted on the Northland website (www.northlandresourcesinc.com).

The objectives of this program were to extend the Barsele Central Zone to the south and to upgrade the confidence category of resources defined during previous drill campaigns. However access to the site was affected by poor spring weather conditions and availability of suitable drill rigs and the program was stopped early with 1,260m completed in 5 holes.

Northland's technical team is currently planning the next phase of drilling at Barsele, scheduled to begin late August. Northland has secured two diamond drill rigs from a European drill contractor which will be available exclusively to Northland for 2 years starting in August. Again, the main objective of the program will be to upgrade the confidence category of resources defined during previous drill campaigns and to increase the known resource.

The drilling has shown that several good intervals of greater than 2.0 g/t material exist to the south of the Central Zone within a much broader zone of persistent, lower level gold values. However the ore grade material is deeper than anticipated. Geologic interpretations of cross-sections through the latest five drill holes indicate a western drill target which will be tested later in the year.

The Skirtraskbacken Prospect

The Skirtraskbacken Gold Prospect is a direct continuation of the Au-mineralized trend that hosts Barsele and forms part of the Barsele project area. Northland has been carrying out a campaign of Base of Till (BOT) sampling program and review of historical data drilling for the prospect with the aim of defining additional drill targets. Two target areas have been identified to date and further work in these areas will include following:

- detailed mapping and structural geological analysis;

- a full interpretation and geological correlation of available historic drill hole information;

- interpretation of historic results from geophysical surveys carried out in 2004;

- generation of new drill targets.

Hannukainen Update

Northland currently has one rig working at the Hannukainen iron-copper-gold project in Finland. Roughly 80 holes are planned with 11 completed to date. First results are expected during August. An extensive program of relogging and sampling of historic diamond drill holes stored in the government core archives is also underway.

NI43-101 Compliance

Vance V. Thornsberry, P.Geol., Vice President of Exploration for Northland Resources, is the Qualified Person as defined in NI43-101, responsible for overseeing the design and execution of the Barsele exploration program. All core from the recent program was logged, photographed and sampled at the Storuman core facility in Sweden. Samples were shipped to ALSChemex in Pitea, Sweden. The samples were prepared at this facility and a 100gram pulp was shipped to ALSChemex in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for fire assay. QA/QC was monitored by the insertion of blank and standard samples.

The resource estimates were prepared by Bart Stryhas, PhD, structural geology, and Vance Thornsberry P Geol. The resource model and estimates were subsequently reviewed by Chlumsky Armbrust & Meyer LLC (CAM), an independent, mineral resource, consulting and engineering group based in Lakewood, Colorado.

Background

Northland Resources Inc. is a well-structured, debt free junior exploration company with approximately $20-million in the treasury and 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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