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Remnants of a concrete base on the island of Silda - traces of an unusual shipwreck

Ulukke / Accident
Published: 14.01.2004
Author: Gunnar Silden Hermund Kleppa
On the night of 13 January 1925, SS "Aladdin" ran aground on the eastern side of Silda. The whole crew survived this dramatic accident, but it meant t...

Herdlevær

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Ronny B. Skaar
Herdlevær lies on one of the small islands west of Hjeltefjorden, facing the North Sea and the big ocean. Today you may arrive there by car. The numer...

Hjelmo

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke
On the farm Hjelmo, furthest north in Øygarden, in the innermost part of a long bay, there is a fine boatshed collection with a church beside it. From...

Hernar

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Hernar is a small group of islands northwest of Seløy, an old outlying harbour on the western route. This is where ships were lying in wait for favour...

Tjeldstømarka

Wildlife
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

Wildlife
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...

Blomvågen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Jan Mangerud
"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås wh...

Turøyvegen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Toftøyna

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Toftestallen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Herman G. Gade
The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic...

Breiviksundet

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigmund Alsaker
There are still fishing sheds standing that were in use right up until the former turn of the century during the winter fisheries. The owners of these...

Kvernapollen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ronny B. Skaar
When the workers came to Kollsnes to start on the work with the landing for the gas terminal from the Troll field in the North Sea, they found the rui...

Hjartøy

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Indrelid Sigmund Alsaker
A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....

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...