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Huse housing development

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Vidar Valen
RADON GAS IN THE GROUND The country's most comprehensive mapping of radon in homes has been carried out in the housing development Huse in Kinsarvik....

Ullensvang vicarage

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
Well over 200 years ago, the priest Niels Hertzberg started making climate observations at the vicarage at Lofthus in Ullensvang. Hertzberg was active...

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 ...

Veivatnet

Plant life
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...

Hårteigen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monume...

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

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 ...

Kvalvikane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kv...

Lote

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...

Ålmerket

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
LARS KINSARVIK AND TROND LARSSON HUS I stova si på Ålmerket i Kinsarvik dreiv Trond Larsson Hus (1806–1878) i mange år ei blømande handelsverksemd. H...

War grave at Nord-Vågsøy church - Ragnvald and Arthur Torheim

Person / Person Gravstein / Gravestone
Published: 11.10.2000
Author: Hermund Kleppa
The brothers Ragnvald and Arthur Torheim lost their lives during the Second World War due to war actions. Both brothers are buried in the same grave o...

The fishing village of Torskangerpollen

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
On the western shores of the island of Vågsøy, in the innermost part of the bay of Kvalheimsvika, where it tapers off and turns south, the fishing v...

Boat-landing facilities at Kråkenes

Plass / Spot
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The people of Kråkenes have always been faced with bad landing sites. There were five known sites: Storehola, Keila, Stiksvika, Bleke and Synstestøa...

Mountain farming in the valley of Skogadalen

Støl / Mountain farm
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Until the 1920s, the villages of Allmenningen and Eldevika had a common mountain farm in Skogadalen in the former municipality of Davik. In the 1920...

The old Kvalheim road

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
The village of Kvalheim has the ocean as its next-door neighbour and the landing conditions have always proved difficult in bad weather. There was a s...

The old vaulted bridge at Maurstad

Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Hermund Kleppa
On the night of 11 October 1984, the more than 100-year-old vaulted bridge at Maurstad collapsed. A road-historical cultural monument was suddenly gon...

The old road between Rimstad and Berstad

Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
Between the farms of Rimstad and Berstad there used to be an old road, used by pilgrims, postmen and local people alike. There are still many traces o...

The pilots on the island of Silda

Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Gunnar Urtegaard
In former times pilots lived on the island of Silda. The northern harbour was a "waiting harbour" for ships heading north past Stad. In bad weather ...

The trading post of Osmundsvåg

Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
Osmundsvåg is located on the peninsula between the strait of Ulvesundet and Sørpollen, with the waters of Sildegapet to the north. On the northernmo...

The trading post of Måløyna

Hamn / Port
Published: 07.07.1999
Author: Anders Gjerde
The shipping lane along the coast has always passed through the strait of Ulvesundet, between the island of Vågsøya and the mainland. The small island...