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Lykling - soapstone

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein Jansen
SOAPSTONE FOR BERGEN'S CHURCHES ...

Finsefetene

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Slåtterøy

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

Bømlahamn

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024

Espevær - the Trading Post

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kari Shetelig Hovland
In the sea west of Bømlo lies Espevær, half an hour’s rowing trip across the sound from Vespestadvågen. This is a well-run and well-maintained local c...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

Moster - The old church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Liden
Moster is mentioned as a church site already in the time of Olav Tryggvason. According to the sagas the king is supposed to have laid the foundations ...

Mosterhamn

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
Mosterhamn is one of the old privileged trading posts situated centrally in the shipping lane, whether the ships sailed on Langenuten, Nyeleia through...

Brandasund

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On Gisøya Island, on the west side of Brandasund Sound, there is a very privileged trading post and traveller's Inn from the 1600s, with the North Sea...

Holmen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
HOLMEN AND THE KØLLE FAMILY Holmen lies by the fjord, innermost in Ulvikpollen. Originally this was a small smallholding or coast dweller’s place b...

Finnås

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...

Siggjo

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...

Moster

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...

Finnås rectory

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe
WOODEN CLOGS AND POTATOES ...

Osa

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Espen Eide
At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast wi...

Bergensbanen

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T.Helleve Atle Ove Martinussen
Already at the beginning of the 1870s demands were made that there had to be a railway connection between Bergen and East Norway. The first section be...

Frøystein

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
The farm Frøystein by the Ulvik fjord is commonly called Fryste. In 1614 the name was written Frøstemb – an obvious Danish influence – and the form Fr...

Espevær-The UFO-Ring

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Olav Aas
In Svartaneset on the west side of Espevær in October of 1975, a large oval imprint was discovered in an undulating field, where the grass had been fl...

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...

Skogafjellet

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
You have to travel to Scotland in order to find pine forests similar to those at Bømlo. The nearness to the sea has contributed in different ways to s...

Lykling - gold

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Brian Robins Haakon Fossen
During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples...

Ulvikapollen

Wildlife
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...

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...

Solskinstjørni

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
Solskinstjørni in Osa, just above Haugen farm in Norddalen, is visible only now and again, seemingly always for a period of good weather. Then it disa...

Osafjorden

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
WARM-LOVING FLORA ...

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...

Buadalsbrotet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...

Bergensbanen - snow measurements

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
Opponents of the Bergen Railway used the snow argument for all it was worth. During the debate in Parliament before the decision about the route was r...

Vassfjøro

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen
ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Askvik
Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended...

Jomfrunuten

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Olaf Dahl Atle Nesje
Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patt...

Nordrenut

Wildlife
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...

Finse

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Wenche Eide
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete wi...

Seberg

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
HALLSTATT - LEKVE ...

Ulvik church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén
CROSS CHURCH AND STAVE CHURCH...

Hallingskeid

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid
THE MARKETPLACE AT HALLINGSKEID ...

Sponheim

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid

Vallaviki

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjarne Sørensen
When Anders Paulson Wallevik (1874-1965) took over the sloop “Haabet” after his father around 1900, he established a wide-ranging business, merchant, ...

Hisøya

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ove Gjerde
"I am going to prove to you that I am right". That is what the idealist and county doctor Christian Heitmann is supposed to have said in the early 189...

Sørøyane

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Knut Fægri
SØRØYANE - THE MOST IMPORTANT SEABIRD LOCALITY IN HORDALAND ...

Selsøya

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid, Arne Tislavoll

Hallaråker

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: John-Inge Svendsen
RAISED BEACHES BY HALLARÅKER-SØNSTABØ ...

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

Erslandsvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
CANADA GEESE - AN IMPORT WITH AN AFTER TASTE ...

Bergesfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...

Hiskjo

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Bjørn Moe
THE TRADING POST AT HISKHOLMEN...

Outer Håvika

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