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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 ...

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland
Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Kvitingen

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. T...

Børtveit

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
Børtveit is known to be a place with a lot of rain. We must go to Samnanger or Indre Matre to find a higher rainfall. The average rainfall on Børtveit...

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,...

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...

Oksen

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
OKSEN – A WEATHER PREDICTOR...

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...

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 ...

Kalvanes

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Bjørn Moe
On the 17th of January, 1993, the area between the towns of Odda and Eitrheimsneset were struck by a giant avalanche. One person was killed, and there...

Odda - The industrial town

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Karsten Eitrheim Endre Skaar Nils Georg Brekke
In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. T...

Simadalen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
On the 10th of August, 1937, over half of the agricultural land in Simadalen was submerged by the river. The damage to roads and houses was also catas...

Vossavangen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
WATER FROM THE GROUNDEssentially all of the inhabitants at Vossavangen receive their tap water from the large sand- and gravel deposits at Prestegards...

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...

Vangsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
150 YEAR BATTLE AGAINST FLOOD It is figured that if nature had her way, a so-called hundred-year flood would increase the water level in Lake Vangsva...

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...

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...

Bergen - Rain City

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Karsten Eitrheim
"With its strange situation (surrounded by high mountains), this city has the advantage of a beautiful port and considerable shipping, but also the di...