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The Fjord - a blue lung
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Herman G. Gade
The West Coast of Norway, with its deep fjords that carve far into the high mountains, is one of the most characteristic and - many would say - beauti...
Last Ice Age
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Jan Mangerud
The continental glacier that covered Hordaland was like a great power that had decisive influence over our natural history. The glaciers which at the ...
Earth and stone
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"Humus" is a word with great meaning. It is the soil we live from, in addition to the resources we get from the ocean. This layer of earth - sometimes...
Glaciers
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Atle Nesje
Svein Olaf Dahl
Arve Tvede
Jostein Bakke
Two of Norway's - and mainland Europe's - largest glaciers, in addition to a number of smaller glaciers, lie in Hordaland. This eternal ice is easily ...
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...
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...
Hausberget
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The Landscape
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Johan Naterstad
If you have passed Fossli on your way eastwards, where the Vøringsfossen waterfall plummets down the ravine carved by the Ice Age, a little further ah...
"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 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...
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...
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...
Landa
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
STRANDFLAT AND SCREE BY LAND...
Botnavatnet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...
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
Møshovd
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Peter Emil Kaland
Precipitous cliffs tower over a thousand metres straight up into the air in wild and narrow Kikedalen at the end of Lake Gjønavatnet. Even in mid-summ...
Skjelbreid
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
On the east side of Lake Skjelbreidvatnet, clearly visible along the road from Eikelandsosen, we notice a farm on a terrace above a grassy hill. The h...
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...
Vinnesleira
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
Stein Byrkjeland
Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge ...
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 ...
Drageid canal
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Kåre Dalland
Lona
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
Ulvensletta
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Bondevik
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...
Os valley
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
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...
Eikelandsosen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountain...
Huglo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
The majority of Huglo is bare rock. A bit of dwarf pine forest is the only vegetation able to put down roots. Along the west- and east sides, to the c...
Fitjarøyane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie ...
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...
Fjell river network
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Geir H.Johnsen
There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill a...
Haganes
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...
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...
Fossen Bratte
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...
Herdla – glacial deposits
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...
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...
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...
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...
Botnen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive...
Ølve
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating for building foun...
Bondhusdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Atle Nesje
J. Riis-Simonsen
The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s...
Melderskin
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Atle Nesje
Endre Skaar
MELDERSKIN - ONCE A NUNATAK? Melderskin, the towering and majestic landmark at Rosendal, rises 1462 metres above sea level. The top area is smooth,...
Ulvanosa
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Some mountains have rounded shapes, while others have steep slopes and sharp edges. Ulvanosa (1246 mos.) has both. The forms reflect the type of bedro...
Langhaugane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
THE MORAINE RIDGES AT LANGHAUGANE ...
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...
Skorpo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater ...
Halsnøy
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Bree...
The Valen Fault
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
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...
Etnedeltaet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Sveil Olaf Dahl
Stein Byrkjeland
During the latter half of the 1900s the big natural river deltas on Westland disappeared. Until the 1980s there was still a small, but significant rem...
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...
The village of Etne
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Sveil Olaf Dahl
Inge Aarseth
Much of the sand and gravel that the town of Etne is built on was laid down at the end of the Ice Age and is evidence of melting glaciers and roaring ...
Krokavatnet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Kuvvet Atakan
Haakon Fossen
On Sunday the 29th of January, 1989, at 17:38 o'clock, Etna shook. The earthquake, with its epicentre ca. 9 kilometres south of Etne centre, had a str...
Skånevik - moraine
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
In Skånevik there are marks left from the ice edge that advanced during the thousand-year cold spell (Younger Dryas) that marked the end of the Ice Ag...
Mosnes
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Arve Tvede
The permanently-protected Mosneselva River, with its meltwater from Folgefonna, runs out into Åkra Fjord by the roadless and uninhabited Mosnes. Those...
Langfoss
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
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...
Åkrafjorden
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Magnus Saltnes
Ingvald Skålnes
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...
The West Country
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Knut Fægri
Hordaland er en scene for naturens mange vekslinger – i topografi, berggrunn, vegetasjon og dyreliv, gjennom klimaperioder og årstider. ...
Åsane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...
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...
Vidden
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bjørn Moe
Tokagjelet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Nils Georg Brekke
There is a sharp transition between the wide valley at Kvamskogen and the narrow Tokagjelet. The transition is no less dramatic when we come out of th...
Steinsdalsfossen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
William Helland-Hansen
Inge Aarseth
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have bee...
Fyksesundet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
"GIANT FEMALE TROLL" ...
Fykse
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
LANDSLIDE AT FYKSE ...
Hereiane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedro...
Folgefonna
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
The glacier is not only white – it is full of colour. The colours have several sources: glacial flour, desert dust, or living algae. And the light ref...
Haugsdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Stein Byrkjeland
Early in the 1900s there were much larger salt water deltas in Hordaland. But, essentially all of the larger river deltas got filled in and regulated ...
Dyrdal
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has d...
Storavatnet - shoreline
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The regulation of Lake Storavatnet has created a rare geological phenomenon: When Herlandsfossen power station taps the reservoir during the spring an...
Mostraumen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back acro...
Nedre Helland - skred
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Many still remember when the avalanche struck Nedre Helland, on the 14th of August, 1953 14:30 o'clock. All of the buildings at one of the farms and t...
Steinslandsvatnet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
SNOW AVALANCHE FANS AND DEPRESSIONS ...
Eksingedalen - landscape
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...
Skjervet - river theft
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward G...
Mundheim
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bjørn Moe
At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the sprin...
Vesoldo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem fr...
Rindarne moraine
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
MORAINE RIDGES The Rindarne moraine is visible from the right stretch of road in Eikedalen, toward Kvamskogen. Northeast of Lake Eikedalstvatnet it s...
Vardetangen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
WESTERN CAPE ...
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 ...
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...
Buardalen Valley
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Atle Nesje
Bjørn Moe
Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mo...
Opo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
OPO – THE RIVER THAT DOESN'T CARVE DEEPER River Opo in Odda has a fall of 88 metres over the two kilometres from Lake Sandvinvatnet to Sørfjorden. Th...
Låtefossen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many...
Grytøyrelva
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
A WELL-ACCOMMODATED RIVER...
Valldalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Arvid Odland
Kåre Utaaker
Valldalen or Valdalen, the name that the locals used in past times, had been a permanent settlement for a long time, and later the biggest mountain-fa...
Hæreid - geology
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Olaf Dahl
The Eidfjord terrace is a gigantic ridge that reaches up more than one hundred metres from the city centre in Eidfjord. It serves as a powerful natura...
Tussafoten
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Skytjedalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Måbødalen - geology
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terr...
Vøringsfossen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
William Helland-Hansen
The official height of Vøringsfossen is 182 metres. A long time before modern measuring methods were invented, natural historians and other curious pe...
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...
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...
Jordalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
During the last ice ages, parts of the Voss river system were stolen and sent down Nærøydalen valley to Nærøy Fjord (Nærøyfjorden). Before this big ri...
Bømoen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Bordalsgjelet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing st...
Rekvesøyane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Bjørn Moe
Stein Byrkjeland
The sediment that was deposited from the river Dyrvo has created the fan-shaped delta Rekvesøyane. The bit of land farthest out toward the water gets ...
Fedje traffic office
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Frank Johnsen
The Vosso river network
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Arve Tvede
The Vosso is Hordaland's main artery, she has never run more richly than in our times, and no other river in western Norway carries so much water. The...
Teigdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Nils Georg Brekke
It is not surprising that there are several folk tales connected to the large and unusual scree deposit that is found at Langeland, uppermost in Teigd...
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...
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...
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...
Fruo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, ...
Langavassfjellet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
ESKERS ...
Kossdalen
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Nils Nonås
KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...
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 ...
Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
Hallaråker
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
John-Inge Svendsen
RAISED BEACHES BY HALLARÅKER-SØNSTABØ ...
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...
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...
Isdalstø
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Johannes Gjerdåker
POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...
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...
Romarheimsdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Toska
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Anders Lundberg
Stein Byrkjeland
The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most imp...
Bygda Dyrdal
Landscape
Grend / Hamlet
Published: 01.10.2007
Author:
Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm
A small greenstone (greenschist) axe from the Stone Age may be an indication that there has been a settlement since prehistoric times in the village o...
Isdalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Vall...
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...
Hardangervidda – Crossing the Uplands
Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Per M. Bremnes
Slepa, the ancient “drove roads” across the plateau, date back to prehistoric times. Through the centuries cattle have been driven to the markets in t...
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