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Cover against the seal, hiding places at the water's edge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Finsefetene

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

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

Rimbareid - Vestbøstad

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

At nesting time you cannot avoid hearing the calls of the curlew or the snipe along the narrow road through the cultural landscape from Rimbareid to V...

Fluøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The richest seabird localities in Bjørna Fjord are FLUØYANE, a group of small and medium-sized islets just east of the entrance to Våge. Here, we see ...

Skogseidvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Skogseidvatnet is the most famous fishing lake in Hordaland, with good stocks of both char and trout. There is fishing here throughout the year: ...

Vinnesleira

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 ...

Yddal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement ...

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland

Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Frølandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SONG SWANS IN LAKE FRØLAND ...

Møkster - seabirds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fish and guests smell after three days, it is said. The cormorants do not need this long. If you follow your nose, the cormorant is not difficult to f...

Sjøbøelva river

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Ulvenvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Ulvenvatnet is thought to be the most species rich wetlands in the municipality. Despite this, the area is not protected, nor is it likely ever t...

Oselva

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Arve Tved

Oselvo is the biggest waterway on the Bergen peninsula, with sources in Gullfjellet and Sveningen. There is a fall of only 60 metres along the entire ...

Sævarhagsvikjo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Most of the shoreline toward the sea in Sunnhordland is stony and steep. Therefore, flat tidal areas are scarce, yet these are especially important fo...

Ådlandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living...

Iglatjødno

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Digernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...

Engesundsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Glesvær

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

He wondered, surely, the fisherman who in 1769 found a 3.3 metre-long silvery shining sea creature at Glesvær. Perhaps he hadn't heard the legend abou...

Litlesotra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

CORAL REEFS ...

Løno

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe William Helland-Hansen Stein Byrkjeland

Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Lø...

The Hess family business at Buskøy

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...

Ågotnes - Stonechat

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Tjeldstømarka

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

There is no place in Hordaland where there are so many over-wintering song swans as in Tjeldstømarka. And there are few places in the county that have...

Skogsøyna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There isn't much forest on Skogsøyna today, but that there is, has been planted. There is not much wildlife, either. But, quite a lot of birds pass by...

Herdla - Migrating birds

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of y...

Herdleflaket

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other divi...

Kollevågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

From 1938 until 1975 there was a large amount of trash dumped in Kollevågen. A lot of the garbage from the city of Bergen ended up here. The dump was ...

Kalandsvika

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

Bjellandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Bjellandsvatnet is one of the richest wetland areas in Sveio. But, everything has its limit, and the supply of nutrients can be too much. This is...

Hopsfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

On June 2nd, 1992, a big forest fire broke out in Sveio. The fire started southeast of Hopsfjellet. In a strong wind the flames spread quickly northwa...

The Losna knights - important men in our national history

People and Society

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...

Espevær - lobster park

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland William Helland-Hansen

The first Lobster Park in Espevær was built in 1887, and at the most there were three here. Operations ceased in 1957. The one lobster park that remai...

Etnedeltaet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Sveil Olaf Dahl Stein Byrkjeland

During the latter half of the 1900s the big natural river deltas on Westland disappeared. Until the 1980s there was still a small, but significant rem...

Etne river

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There is still life to be found that is just “hanging on a string”. The Etne river has been the most important river for sports- fisherman in Hordalan...

Stordalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Mary Losvik

When the Etne water system was protected in 1994, preservation of the cultural landscape in Stordalen Valley was a a main objective. This is a valley ...

Byparken

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

It isn't true that hungry students have hunted down basking ducks in the city park Byparken in their spring fervour, as rumours may have it. But, it i...

Nygårdsparken

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fjellsiden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Møllendal graveyard is the winter home of the urban crows in Bergen. Those that do not want to stay overnight in the graveyard, perch in the lush deci...

Rambjøra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

In Sanddalen and Helldalsåsen the building of houses has increased dramatically. Where there eariery was grazing land, hundreds of families now live. ...

Skårsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

In September, 1901, a load of golden orfe fish was transported from Preussen to Bergen for stocking of Nygårdspark. One of the originators of the proj...

Stølsdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The grey alder forest down by the river in Stølsdalen is full of life. The many birds are very busy finding enough to eat from day to day – but the bi...

Folgefonna

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...

Djønno

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Matre - Salmon spot

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

BEST SALMON SPOT IN THE COUNTY...

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

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 ...

Frøyset river network

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Frøyset river network is protected from power station-building - not because of its pristine nature - but because it is a typical river network for th...

Raunøya

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden....

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...

Herlandsnesjane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Herlandsnesjane, a four-kilometre long peninsula in Lake Storavatnet in the middle of Osterøy, is well known among botanists. Here lies an unusually l...

Storavatnet - Red-throated diver

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The troll-like sounds from the Red-throated diver carry long distances between the mountains around Storavatnet. The high-pitched, haunting screeches ...

Lonelva

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

It is said that the salmon populations with the largest and the smallest salmon in the world both come from the waters that run out into the fjord sys...

Hellandsfossen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SALMON LADDER IN HELLANDSFOSSEN WATERFALL ...

Otterstadstølen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

Otterstadstølen lies in an idyllic grassy plain surrounded by rich forest, but also with high mountains close by. The mountainsides are steep and typi...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Lake Nesheimvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Ekso

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

In the late 1800s, Ekso was known among the nobility in England as having among the best salmon rivers. In summer the Lords could haul in big fish of ...

Seglberget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

HOUSE MARTINS IN STONE WALLS...

Granvinsvassdraget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Randolf Knotten

After the ice age, Granvin Fjord reached all the way up under Skjervsfjossen waterfall. Just a thousand years later, as a result of the rising of the ...

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...

Aksnesholmane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There are especially many seabirds inwards along the fjords of western Norway. There are not many islets, either, so if the birds want to nest, it is ...

Fedje bog

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The wild rabbit is really native to Northwest Africa, but the Ancient Romans introduced them to large parts of Europe. Not to Norway, rightly enough: ...

Innarsøyene

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SEA BIRDS ON INNARSØYANE ...

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...

Purkebolsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Purkebolsvatnet is perhaps western Norway's largest sleeping city - for birds. They come in the thousands, usually in later summer and autumn. Th...

Leirvågen

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...

Grunnosen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

A PROTECTED NERITIC ...

Kinso

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SALMON OF KINSO RIVER...

Veivatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

From Kinsekvelven river and inward to Lake Veivatnet, we can wander through one of Hardangervidda's many fertile areas. A number of finicky plants gro...

Sandvin

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

It is not easy to know what the conditions are at the nesting grounds when one is far away in winter - perhaps in France or the Mediterranean. At Sand...

Eio

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fishing ground bearings - the key to the harvest of the sea

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

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...

Veafjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Some decades ago, Veafjord and the currents in toward the bigger rivers were the most likely places to see harbour seals in Hordaland. In the summer f...

Raundalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Thousands of years ago - when the climate was warmer than today - there was probably a lot of moose in Hordaland. We know this from finds of bone from...

Vikafjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The largest reindeer herd in Hordaland - outside of Hardangervidda - lives in the mountainous area between Voss/Vaksdal and Sognefjorden....

Myrkdalsdeltaet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Mykdal delta had an unusually diverse bird life, right up until 1987. The Myrkdal delta should have been protected, and the plans were prepared. Despi...

Lønaøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The Strandaelvi river is forever protected from the development of hydropower. The Lønaøyane islands – which comprise the delta furthest north in Lake...

Vossagran

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Knut Nedkvitne Stein Byrkjeland

How did the spruce tree get to Voss? Did the seed or small spruce plants get help from people, for example, to make it here unscathed? Nobody knows....

Rekvesøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

The sediment that was deposited from the river Dyrvo has created the fan-shaped delta Rekvesøyane. The bit of land farthest out toward the water gets ...

Vosso

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Geir H. Johnsen

There is probably no bigger salmon to be found in the whole wide world than in Vosso. The average size varies from season to season of course, but for...

Ulvikapollen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

When the lush beach area innermost in Ulvikapollen was protected, the bird life was instrumental to the decision. The plant diversity is just as impre...

Nordrenut

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

It must have taken a long time for the snails of Finse to make it to the mountains; six species have been found as high as 1470 m a.s.l. For the snail...

Krækkjavassdraget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Few other animal species on Hardangervidda have been as much the focus of scientific research as the spotted trout. The spotted trout is considered to...

Bjoreidalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bjoreidalen is one of the classic bird localities on Hardangervidda. It is especially known for its wading birds, with as many as 17 of the 19 wader s...

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

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...

Korsfjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

IN DEEP WATER...

Sørøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Knut Fægri

SØRØYANE - THE MOST IMPORTANT SEABIRD LOCALITY IN HORDALAND ...

Erslandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

CANADA GEESE - AN IMPORT WITH AN AFTER TASTE ...

Flakkavågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

BLOOD SUCKERS...

Langavassmyrane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The Ruff lek on Langvassmyrane is the only known phenomenon of its kind on Hardangervidda. Every year it attracts hens from the whole plateau. The mar...

Vevatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Eikangervågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

TUFTED DUCKS IN EIKANGERVÅGEN BAY ...

Fossevatna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fossevatna, some few kilometres north of Alversund, is one of the finest wetland areas in Lindås. Especially the birdlife has made this place well kno...

Husebø

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...

Lure Fjord

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Both Lure Fjord and Lindåsosane to the inside give good living conditions for rare marine organisms: jellyfish, shellfish and fish. These include anim...

Rylandvassdraget

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There is a lot of trout and a large char population in Lake Rylandsvatnet. The lake was stocked with char, probably in 1907. The promoters of the proj...

Myking

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

Between Lake Kvalheimsvatnet and Lake Mykingsvatnet, north of Grindheim, we find one of the biggest continuous lowland bogs in Hordaland. It is 500-60...

Salhusfjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Herman G.Gade

When the debate about building a pontoon bridge over Salhus Fjord was raging, some were afraid that the bridge would disrupt the ecology of the fjord ...

Toska

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most imp...

Vollom

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

On Vollom, northwest of Seim, we find the only natural beech forest in Western Norway, which is also the most northerly of its type in the world. Beec...

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...

Indrøy trading post

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

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...