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"Knut" and two other six-oared boats
Communications
Båt / Boat
Transport / Transport
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Årstein Svihus
The "Sunnfjord boat" used to be the common boat type in the Sunnfjord area, but already 150 years ago, it was beginning to lose ground to a modified...
The Bakkejekta sloop
Communications
Båt / Boat
Hamn / Port
Handel / Trade
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Gaute Losnegård
To commemorate a time when all transport of goods between the Dalsfjorden and Bergen went by sea on vessels powered by the wind, the Bakkejekta sloop ...
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
Communications
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 canal through the strip of land called Florø-eidet
Communications
Kanal / Canal
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Harald J. Stavang
Before the city of Florø was established in 1860, the trade at Florelandet was located in the bay of Gaddevågen and at Eidet. In 1872/73, a canal wa...
The small town of Undredal
Historier om migrasjon
Bygd / Village
Utvandring / Emigration
Published: 25.09.2007
Author:
Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm
Undredal is a very special small town, located about half-way into the Aurlandsfjord. Until the late 1980s, the town could only be reached by boat. To...
Skjeggedal
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Utvær lighthouse - the landmark furthest to the west
Communications
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 first roads in Solund
Communications
Veg / Road
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...
Solund emigrants go west
Historier om migrasjon
Utvandring / Emigration
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Alf Strand
In 1848, the first family emigrated from Solund. Up to 1924, some 200 persons from Solund had found a new home in the USA, and most of them settled ...
The track around Selja
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Borgny Dam-Nielsen
Selja, the holy island which has such an important place in our history, is situated about one kilometre off the mainland. The island covers an area o...
Lussand-roadwork
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work sta...
Bømlahamn
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Transport and Communication
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bård Kolltveit
Erling Virkesdal
Anders K. Engevik
THE FJORD STEAMER BOAT “On the quay at Bergen, there lay a boat, So beautifully polished that it shone, With fine masts and a funnel with tone...
Farmers from the Fjords
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Anders Kåre Engevik
Eitt av dei store samferdsleprosjekta på Vestlandet mot slutten av 1800-talet var opninga av Nesttun-Osbanen i 1894 – ei oppbløming av lokalhandel, tu...
Langebudalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Åkrafjorden
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Magnus Saltnes
Ingvald Skålnes
Gjuvsland
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Mary Losvik
Nils Georg Brekke
For time immemorial, probably all the way back to the Middle Ages, animals from the Homestead at Gjuvsland have grazed on the sunny slopes on the sout...
Møkjedalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
NORWAY'S BIGGEST YEW TREE ...
Ølveshovda
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Ænesdalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in t...
Road from Florø
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Florø was founded in 1859, and was for close to 150 years the only city in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. What was highly unusual was the fact that t...
Reppadalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
The unusual bog landscape, with enormous peat deposits surrounded by steep mountainsides, makes Reppadalen in Arna an exciting, but little visited tou...
Kråmyrane
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Skuggestranda
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
PARADISE FOR MOSSES ...
The "Trondhjemske" postal road in Gulen
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 26.09.2005
Author:
Kristin Ese
The postal road in Gulen was formerly a part of the "Trondhjemske" postal road. In 1868, the road was no longer used as a postal road as the post was ...
The Royal Postal Road Bleiklindi - Styvi in the Nærøyfjord
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The present main road between Oslo and Bergen follows more or less the same route as the old postal roads did. However, from Lærdal it no longer follo...
The Måløy Bridge - Norway's longest bridge in 1974
Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 02.09.2005
Author:
Kristin Ese
The Måløy Bridge was officially opened for traffic in the summer of 1974. The bridge project was realized by means of a strong local involvement and i...
Fløyfjellet
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Munkebotsdalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Rambjøra
Plant life
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. ...
Rådalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bernt-Håvard Øyen
"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be...
Opposition to the Flåm Railway
Communications
Strid / Strife
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
When the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) in 1883 decided that the line for the Bergen Railway would go by way of Myrdal and Finse, the county counci...
Totland - Måløy - "a highly suitable road"
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Totland-Deknepollen was the last remaining distance before there was a continuous road between Måløy and Oppland across the mountain pass of Strynefje...
Floteskaret
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Tungesvikstranda
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
The Flåm Railway - built 1923-1940
Communications
Jarnbane / Railway
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
On 10 July 1908, the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - decided to build a railway line between Myrdal and Flåm. The work was not begun until 1923, a...
The Ancient Ash Tree
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Holmedalsberget
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is...
Tveitabotn
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
VIRGIN FOREST IN THE BOTTOM OF TVEITA ...
The struggle for bridge across the Dalsfjord
Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The Dalsfjord bridge has been the most hotly debated communications project in the county and has led to bitter political controversy. The start was t...
From riding path to road - between Kaupanger and Sogndal
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Kaupanger has always been an important historical place in Sogn. There is a reference to the place in the saga literature and it has been used as a ma...
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...
Road between Askvoll and Stongfjorden
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Stongfjorden was one of the first industrial villages in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, with the first aluminium plant in Scandinavia. The industrial...
Moster
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
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...
The Loftesnes bridge in Sogndal
Communications
Sund / Strait
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The Loftesnes bridge was the first bridge and road project in the county to be financed by toll money. The bridge was completed in 1958. In a 20-year ...
Munkebotn
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
Garnes
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
Mannseidet - royal road and national cultural site
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
In former days travelling along the Norwegian coast took mostly place on sea. The old roads across the strips of land called Mannseidet and Dragseidet...
Hopsfjellet
Plant life
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...
Grønafjellet
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Mountain plants with their beautiful, colourful flowers are common in high altitude areas in Norway. On the coast there are not so many of them. But, ...
Ånuglo
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Harald Salvesen
Stein Byrkjeland
Take a tour to Ånuglo on a warm summer's day. You can anchor up in Skipavågen and go exploring along the beach. Or, you can find giant holly trees and...
Vernøya
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Anders Lundberg
If you smell a foul smell out in nature, you mustn't immediately think that the reason is cloaca from houses or cabins. The reason can be an entirely ...
Tveitavatnet
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
It is difficult to imagine that a plant can grow at the same place for many thousands of years: Climate and local environment change. Different specie...
Storsøya Island
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
On Storsøya Island, English ivy grows nearly everywhere. It creeps along the ground and climbs all the way to the top of the tree trunks. Together wit...
Brandvikneset
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Per Harald Salvesen
ENGLISH YEW TREE FOREST AT BRANDVIKNESET ...
Møkster - botany
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Anders Lundberg
Knut Krzywinski
Road building in Solund - scramble for state road
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...
The main road at Bremangerlandet
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
A continuous road connection along the Bremangerlandet with ferry across to Måløy came in 1949. In 1977, the island of Frøya was connected to the high...
Lysekloster - Mushroom flora
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Olav Aas
The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from t...
Road between Villevika in Flora and Midtgulen in Bremanger
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The farms on the mainland between Florø and Midtgulen had to wait for a long time before they got any road. Up until 1993, people in this area did not...
Pøyla
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Anders Lundberg
The road along the fjord between Naustdal and Eikefjord
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The public road between Naustdal-Vevring-Stavang-Eikefjord was completed section by section, and not without discussions. The road between Stavang and...
Lysekloster - The monks and nature
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister enc...
"Folkelånsvegen" (the people's loan road) - in the connection Askvoll-Førde
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Sel...
Late road connection to the outside world for the industrial town of Svelgen
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
It was the development of hydroelectric power that created the industrial growth in Svelgen from 1914. However, it took a long before any road constru...
Villelia
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
The road Oppedal-Instefjord - an important part of the main road network
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The road construction between Instefjord and Oppedal was an important link in the so-called Coastal Highway between Stavanger, Bergen and Ålesund, the...
Raudlia
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Os station
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ralph Wilson
Anders Kåre Engevik
On Sunday July 1st 1894 the Nesttun-Os railway was opened. “On the platform Consul Gade wished the railway the best of luck, whereupon the first train...
Hopslia
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. R...
Road and ferry between Byrknesøy and the mainland
Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The road connection between the islands of Mjømna and Byrknesøy was officially opened on 13 September 1997. This was 40 years after the county governo...
Yddal
Plant life
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 ...
The road connection Værlandet-Bulandet
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Kristin Ese
The archipelago of Værlandet - Bulandet consists of the area to the west of the Aldefjord. In 1981, Askvoll municipality forwarded a suggestion for a ...
Slåttene
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Idar Restad
Hystad - the black alder forest
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
Stein Byrkjelan
One of the biggest black alder forests in the country is in Hystadmarkjo. Along the well prepared trail through the forest you can experience an excep...
Hovaneset
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
PURPLE SAXIFRAGE - A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN PLANT - BY THE SEA ...
Ådlandsvatnet
Plant life
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...
Drageid canal
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Kåre Dalland
Steinevik
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Joberget
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Flowering lime is one of nature's blessings: The nectar gives clear honey. The flower is used as folk medicine. From the inner bark of the lime tree o...
Uranes
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
One of the most magnificent deciduous forests in Hordaland grows along the border with Kvam. The rich growth comes from the phyllite and mica schist b...
Havås
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
WORLD FAMOUS BOTANIST Johan Havaas (1864–1956) lived at the little farm, Havås, far up on the slope on the southwest side of Lake Granvinsvatnet. He ...
Skiftesjøen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Hanne Svarstad
Olav Aas
A microscopic mushroom from Hardangervidda has been like a “golden hen” for the Swiss company Novartis. Everywhere in the world, companies are looking...
Fedje traffic office
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Frank Johnsen
Isdalstø
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Johannes Gjerdåker
POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...
Husedalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
OLD PINE FORESTHardangervidda has no more beautiful entryway for hikers than Husedalen. The river, its waterfalls and the expansive landscape is well ...
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...
Lote
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...
Fadnesskaret
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...
Osafjorden
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
WARM-LOVING FLORA ...
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...
Jonstein
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
When high school student Arne Handegard collected plants for a herbarium in 1962, he didn’t know what kind of rarity he had pressed into his notebook....
Kossdalen
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Nils Nonås
KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...
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...
From “Spearway” to National Highway
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Johannes Gjerdåker
1. “SPEARWAY (public road), tracks to the mountain pasture and cattle tracks shall remain as they were from ancient time). 2.When the spearway runs ac...
Stalheimskleiva
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Johannes Gjerdåker
From the oldest times on record in Norway one of the most important traffic arteries between west and east Norway has passed across Bolstad – Voss – S...
Dyrskard
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Nils Nonås
Harald Jordal
Right from the start the road across Haukelifjell was a road from “fjord to fjord”, from the bottom of Sørfjorden to Dalen in Telemark. The connection...
Ygre
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Aslak L.Helleve
Ygre Station lies hidden away for highway travellers, just below the road Vossevangen-Mjølfjell. The station building at Ygre was constructed at Nestt...
Skjervet - road construction
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Knut Kjerland
Johannes Gjerdåker
The road between Eide in Granvin and Voss is one of the oldest roads mentioned in the Middle Ages. In a diploma from 1343 from Voss regarding distribu...
Spjutøy
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Gunn Nordal
At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not rea...
Mørkhølen
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Statens vegvesen
Nils Georg Brekke
Ivar Bård Aadland
Turøyvarden
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Atle Ove Martinussen
Vollom
Plant life
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...
Andvikedalen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
ELM- AND LIME TREE...
Herlandsnesjane
Plant life
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...
Otterstadstølen
Plant life
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...
Moastølen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...
Leiro
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Myking
Plant life
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...
Lyngoksen
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Peter Emil Kaland
The swamp layer at Lyngoksen is unusually thick, and the island therefore stands out from the rest of the islands along the coast. Even up on the ridg...
Holo
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Mary Losvik
I Kvassdalen var det aktiv stølsdrift med mjølking av kyr og geitehald nokre år inn i vårt tusenår, og slik hadde det vore i meir enn to hundre år. Så...
Ulvund
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Mary Losvik
One of the oldest farms in Myrkdalen, Ulvund, is recognized as one of 14 areas in Hordaland having an especially valuable cultural landscape. The dirt...
Vossagran
Plant life
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....
Langebrua
Communications
Bru / Bridge
Published: 07.07.1999
Author:
Finn Borgen Førsund
The bridge across the river Jølstra was named after the shopkeeper Hans Christian Fr. Lange, one of the people who took the initiative to build the ...
Herdla - botany
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Golta - Pygmy willow
Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
The track up to the mountain farm of Rimstigen
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 23.02.2006
Author:
Åsmund Ohnstad
The farms of Bakka and Tufto are located on the western side of the Nærøyfjord about six kilometres north of the village of Gudvangen. In the mountain...
Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Stend station
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per Jahn Lavik
Reisete
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
CROSSING THE GLACIER ...
The Kråkenesveg road in Vågsøy
Communications
Veg / Road
Published: 11.07.2006
Author:
Kristin Ese
Far to the west towards the ocean lies the hamlet of Kråkenes. A cart road to this place was built in the 1940s. The road could hardly be used in the ...
Espe
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Ågot Gammersvik
HORSE DEALERS AND CATTLE TRADERS...
Måbødalen - road construction
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per M. Bremnes
THE ROADS THROUGH MÅBØDALEN...
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