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Kvalvåg

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Kvalvåg on Stolmen is first mentioned as a trading post in 1655, and in 1731 the owner Jens Meyer, was granted a royal trading privilege....

Bakholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar
On Austre Bakholmen, a small islet of around 15 acres between Hundvåko and Drøni, lies the oldest trading centres in Austevoll. For a long time this w...

Hufthammar

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Johan Haugland
Farming in Austevoll has nearly all been in combination with fishing as the main industry. The farms in the district are therefore small, even in a we...

Krosshamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Krosshamn lies in the shipping lane northeast of Hundvåkøy, near Sandtorv. The name probably derives from the fact that this is Austevoll’s harbour si...

Steinevik

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - seabirds

Wildlife
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...

Møkster - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Korsfjorden

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke
IN DEEP WATER...

Møkstrafjordøyane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid
The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...

Drøna

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid
GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

Bekkjarvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Eidsbøen

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a ...

Bukken

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
In Christian IV’s diary from Norgesreisa (trip to Norway) in 1599, we find the reference or anecdote that is the origin of the name Bukken. A Dutch fu...

Glesvær - Trading post

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Åsmund Lien Atle Austestad
Glesvær is one of the oldest trading posts on the West Norwegian coast. In the 1700s and 1800s this was the most important fishing centre on Sotra. Th...

Golta - Long house

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters ...

Tælavåg

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar
Tælavåg has a significant place in the history of the German occupation in WWII. The small community by the sea, where for centuries people had made a...

Skogsvåg

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Øystein Frøiland
Kval i våg! Når det ropet gjekk, var det berre å få ut den kraftige kvalnota til å stengja vågen med, og så kunne veidinga ta til. I uminnelege tider ...

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...

Golta - Pygmy willow

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Spildepollen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...