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Earth and stone
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"Humus" is a word with great meaning. It is the soil we live from, in addition to the resources we get from the ocean. This layer of earth - sometimes...
Cover against the seal, hiding places at the water's edge
Felle / Trap
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In a number of places along the coast, seal hunting from land has taken place. A sheltered bay with skerries and rocks near the shore was a good platf...
Farm flour mills in Solund
Mølle / Mill
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Few associate grain cultivation with the Solund landscape. Nonetheless, even in the smallest of streams there are visible signs of flour milling. Le...
Ospa - idyll with dramatic war history
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 30.08.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In 1943, the motor torpedo boat MTB 345 had to go in to Ospa in Solund because it ran out of fuel. It could not go on, and was detected by German pl...
The sheepfold - beauty shop of the wild sheep
Plass / Spot
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Granite stone fences on to a crag, with green patches around and stones rolled to the side on the beach to make room for the rowboat: the sheepfold ...
Oyster cultivation in Solund
Fiske / Fishing
Jordbruk / Farming
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The rugged Solund coastline has a wealth of small, round fjords with narrow outlets, called "polls", bays, and coves which are well suited for the cul...
The boat repairman - essential element in the coast community
Båt / Boat
Reparasjon / Repair
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
When the fisherman had had the misfortune to bump the boat into the sea floor so hard that the bailing pump had to work non-stop, and despair was gett...
Oldra - big arms depot in rock cave
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
During the Second World War, there was on the island of Oldra a depot with large quantities of weapons and other war materials. The depot was disclo...
Storsundet - important base for resistance activity during the war
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Storsundet in Solund became an important base and a hub for resistance activity in the Sogn district during the war. The Shetland traffic used the p...
Utvær lighthouse - the landmark furthest to the west
Communications
Fyrlykt / Lighthouse
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
From 1900 to 1920, 37 lighthouses were built in this country. One of these was the Utvær lighthouse, and its impressive and solid construction was bui...
The Solund shipping lanes - communication arteries between north and south
Sund / Strait
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Many a travelling sailor at the helm has wished that the Solund sea-lanes were much shorter. A good thing, then, that the islands were blessed with go...
Ships going down and running aground in Solund
Ulukke / Accident
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The archipelago of Solund was brutal for sailing vessels in strong westerly winds. But motor vessels went wrong as well, with tragic consequences. A...
Herring bays and seine rocks
Vik / Inlet
Published: 29.03.2000
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Nature was generous in providing herring bays and mackerel coves in Solund. Fjord branches from north to south were ideal places for plankton in the s...
The steamship quay - economic and social innovation
Kai / Quay
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
With the steamship quays, the communities got a new look. In the 1920s, after years of hazardous toil in boarding boats, the first quays in Solund a...
The first roads in Solund
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Slim and agile, state road 606 winds through the Solund landscape. But it came at a price to knock one's way through the conglomerate, in order to con...
"Springar" from Solund
Musikk / Music
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
A variant of the traditional folk dance "springdans" is the Solund "springar". This dance, and fiddle music written down after fiddle players in wes...
Husefjellet - signal station in the mountain
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
From the signal station on Husefjellet the Germans could monitor the traffic through the shipping lane of Indre Steinsund. In addition, they had an ...
Tungodden - signal station in a rain of bullets
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
It is hard to believe that the Germans would build a signal station on the outermost point of Oddenova. The temptation became too great for the alli...
Hausberget
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Hugøy - signal station on Hugøyknolten
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Drawn back on the highest knoll, and built into the terrain, the lookout post at Hugøy was located, difficult to detect from the shipping lanes in t...
Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary
People and Society
Person / Person
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very c...
The potato shipwreck at Seglsteinen
Skipsvrak / Ship wreck
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In the pitch-dark night in December 1944, a German convoy is sailing north across the waters of Sognesjøen. No lighthouses are lit, yet the leader b...
The old schoolhouse at Hardbakke
People and Society
Skulehus / School building
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Hardbakke was the second place in Solund which had a schoolhouse. From 1870 onwards, the schoolchildren could climb up the stone steps to a spacious c...
"Påting" - environment friendly young coalfish fishing
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In early evening in the summer, a fleet of motor boats from western Solund headed west. Their destination was the numerous fishing grounds far out, ...
The old youth association house at Hardbakke
Forsamlingshus / Assembly house
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
After years on the road between schoolhouse, private homes, and vicarage barn, it was an unbelievable relief for the Hardbakke youth association when ...
Water level marks in Solund
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Plakett / Plaque
Published: 19.12.2001
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Along the entire Norwegian coast, so-called water level marks were chopped into the rock in the 19th century. 123 such marks are known today, and two ...
Clip fish-drying in Solund
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 19.12.2001
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Landa
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
STRANDFLAT AND SCREE BY LAND...
Møshovd
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Peter Emil Kaland
Precipitous cliffs tower over a thousand metres straight up into the air in wild and narrow Kikedalen at the end of Lake Gjønavatnet. Even in mid-summ...
Skjelbreid
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
On the east side of Lake Skjelbreidvatnet, clearly visible along the road from Eikelandsosen, we notice a farm on a terrace above a grassy hill. The h...
Vinnesleira
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
Stein Byrkjeland
Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge ...
Grasdalen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
MARBLE AND KARST ...
Lona
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...
Os valley
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Eikelandsosen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountain...
Hystad - the black alder forest
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
Stein Byrkjelan
One of the biggest black alder forests in the country is in Hystadmarkjo. Along the well prepared trail through the forest you can experience an excep...
Huglo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
The majority of Huglo is bare rock. A bit of dwarf pine forest is the only vegetation able to put down roots. Along the west- and east sides, to the c...
Fitjarøyane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie ...
Fitjar - potatoes
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The deep agricultural soils in Fitjar are found especially in the area between Lake Storavatnet and Breivika. The many stonewalls in the area reflect ...
The Hess family business at Buskøy
Handel / Trade
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The old patrician seat of Buskøy, with a trade and inn-keeping license from 1705, has been the home of several enterprising and successful people. For...
Haganes
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...
Fossen Bratte
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...
Herdla – glacial deposits
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...
Ask - jordbær
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...
Golta - Gneiss
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...
The Losna knights - important men in our national history
People and Society
Øy / Island
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
During the 1300s and the 1400s, Losna was the seat and the base of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. A good nose for fi...
Ølve
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating for building foun...
Ænesdalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in t...
Ulvanosa
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Some mountains have rounded shapes, while others have steep slopes and sharp edges. Ulvanosa (1246 mos.) has both. The forms reflect the type of bedro...
Langhaugane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
THE MORAINE RIDGES AT LANGHAUGANE ...
Skorpo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater ...
Halsnøy
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Bree...
The village of Etne
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Sveil Olaf Dahl
Inge Aarseth
Much of the sand and gravel that the town of Etne is built on was laid down at the end of the Ice Age and is evidence of melting glaciers and roaring ...
Skånevik - moraine
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
In Skånevik there are marks left from the ice edge that advanced during the thousand-year cold spell (Younger Dryas) that marked the end of the Ice Ag...
Åsane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...
Vidden
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bjørn Moe
Tokagjelet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Nils Georg Brekke
There is a sharp transition between the wide valley at Kvamskogen and the narrow Tokagjelet. The transition is no less dramatic when we come out of th...
Steinsdalsfossen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
William Helland-Hansen
Inge Aarseth
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have bee...
Fyksesundet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"GIANT FEMALE TROLL" ...
Fykse
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
LANDSLIDE AT FYKSE ...
Folgefonna
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
The glacier is not only white – it is full of colour. The colours have several sources: glacial flour, desert dust, or living algae. And the light ref...
Memorial stone over fallen on Hersvik churchyard
People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...
Haugsdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
Early in the 1900s there were much larger salt water deltas in Hordaland. But, essentially all of the larger river deltas got filled in and regulated ...
Litlematre
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...
Dyrdal
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has d...
Shore seine fishing for fat herring in Solund
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
A rusty bolt in a bay can be the only visible memory of shore seine fishing, from times when the sheer momentum of the herring shoal coming from the w...
Storavatnet - shoreline
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The regulation of Lake Storavatnet has created a rare geological phenomenon: When Herlandsfossen power station taps the reservoir during the spring an...
Mostraumen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back acro...
Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Nils Georg Brekke
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...
Nedre Helland - skred
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Many still remember when the avalanche struck Nedre Helland, on the 14th of August, 1953 14:30 o'clock. All of the buildings at one of the farms and t...
Eksingedalen - landscape
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...
Skjervet - river theft
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward G...
Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing - big fisheries in the 1950s
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In the course of the 1950s, tuna fishing became big fisheries, which in the summer season employed a great many fishermen and vessels from Solund. The...
Mundheim
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bjørn Moe
At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the sprin...
Rindarne moraine
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
MORAINE RIDGES The Rindarne moraine is visible from the right stretch of road in Eikedalen, toward Kvamskogen. Northeast of Lake Eikedalstvatnet it s...
Bernhard Færøyvik - pioneer in coast vessels history
Person / Person
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Bernhard Færøyvik from Solund was one of our most prominent vessel historians. He was a pioneer as well as an adviser in drawing and visualizing the o...
Memorial stone over fallen on Solund churchyard at Hardbakke
People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. F...
Memorial stone for fallen on Husøy churchyard at Straumen
People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Hermund Kleppa
On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...
Many-sided activities vital in Solund
Fiske / Fishing
Jordbruk / Farming
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
In order to survive on the rugged islands in the west, the people had to harvest from the sea as well as from the land. The money came more easily fro...
Leirvågen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
A marsh is a grassy meadow that is strongly influenced by salt from the sea. This type of nature is abundant in Denmark, among other places. The flatl...
Opedal
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
FRUIT-GROWING ON FLOOD DEPOSITS The old road through Opedal and Helland in Lofthus gives a beautiful introduction to the Fruit Kingdom, both when in ...
Velure
Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Inge Aarseth
ANNUAL AVALANCHES South of Velure the mountainsides plunge from 1500 metres right down into Sørfjorden. No place along the fjord has snow avalanches ...
Opo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
OPO – THE RIVER THAT DOESN'T CARVE DEEPER River Opo in Odda has a fall of 88 metres over the two kilometres from Lake Sandvinvatnet to Sørfjorden. Th...
Låtefossen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many...
Grytøyrelva
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
A WELL-ACCOMMODATED RIVER...
Tussafoten
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Måbødalen - geology
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terr...
Fishing ground bearings - the key to the harvest of the sea
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Plass / Spot
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Most of the fishing ground bearings (called ¿méd" in Norwegian) are today forgotten. But once, having good fishing bearings for oneself could be compa...
The fishing industry at Færøy
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Fiske / Fishing
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The seine-drying facility at Færøy is enormous. Yet it is only one part of the fishing industry which grew up and expanded in this place in the course...
Mjølfjell
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...
Jordalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
During the last ice ages, parts of the Voss river system were stolen and sent down Nærøydalen valley to Nærøy Fjord (Nærøyfjorden). Before this big ri...
Bømoen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bordalsgjelet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing st...
Teigdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Nils Georg Brekke
It is not surprising that there are several folk tales connected to the large and unusual scree deposit that is found at Langeland, uppermost in Teigd...
Ulvik-village
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The ice cap that covered the land during each of the 40 past ice ages over the past 2 million years of Earth's history pressed down the crust of the e...
Rallarvegen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end ca...
Fruo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, ...
The big "river theft" in the valley of Nærøydalen
Naturformasjon / Natural structure
Published: 19.05.2005
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The river of Nærøydalselvi has not always been as big as it is today. Throughout the last few ice ages it has stolen many tributary rivers which previ...
Sysendammen
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Sysendalen
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on...
Langavassfjellet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
ESKERS ...
The salteries - sea houses moved from the trading posts
Sjøbu / Sea house
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
A large number of houses from the westernmost parts of Solund have been on the move. Still, none have been more exposed and have tasted more of the ...
Begla - weapons depot with sinister shadows
Krigsplass / War site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The bay of Beglevågen in westernmost Solund must be the smallest in the country. Here the resistance movement had a weapons depot during the Second ...
Ancient relics in bog and stone
Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The rocky ground in Solund did not invite people to carve art into it. But there were numerous shelters which were suitable as living quarters for t...
Utvær "skipreide" - area of defence with "leidang" ships and beacons
Øy / Island
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The Solund islands are on the doorstep of communication across the North Sea, centrally and strategically, with good harbours and plenty of hiding p...
Wartime Shetland traffic - fishing boats go west
Transport / Transport
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
A short distance to Shetland and a rugged coastline with good harbours and excellent hiding places for people and vessels were the reasons why Solun...
Sloops in the Sognefjord trade
Transport / Transport
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
From times immemorial, the people from Solund have bartered and sold their produce in Bergen and in communities along the Sognefjord. The cargo vess...
Husebø
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
When the Corncrake returned to Nordhordland, it came as no surprise that Husebø was the place it chose. Here, remnants of the old cultural landscape a...
Leiro
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Romarheimsdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Conglomerate for nuisance, benefit, and decoration
Naturformasjon / Natural structure
Published: 25.03.2003
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
The glacier did not reach out to the westernmost islands of Solund. In return, it left a rich collection of conglomerate stone eastward on the islands...
Isdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Vall...
Indrøy trading post
Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Hans H. Steinsund
Clearly visible in the shipping lane of Ytre Steinsund, the trading post of Indrøy is situated. It is a striking example of how a self-made man buil...
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