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Cover against the seal, hiding places at the water's edge

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In a number of places along the coast, seal hunting from land has taken place. A sheltered bay with skerries and rocks near the shore was a good platf...

Farm flour mills in Solund

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Few associate grain cultivation with the Solund landscape. Nonetheless, even in the smallest of streams there are visible signs of flour milling. Le...

Ospa - idyll with dramatic war history

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 30.08.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In 1943, the motor torpedo boat MTB 345 had to go in to Ospa in Solund because it ran out of fuel. It could not go on, and was detected by German pl...

The sheepfold - beauty shop of the wild sheep

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Granite stone fences on to a crag, with green patches around and stones rolled to the side on the beach to make room for the rowboat: the sheepfold ...

Oyster cultivation in Solund

Fiske / Fishing Jordbruk / Farming

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The rugged Solund coastline has a wealth of small, round fjords with narrow outlets, called "polls", bays, and coves which are well suited for the cul...

The boat repairman - essential element in the coast community

Båt / Boat Reparasjon / Repair

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

When the fisherman had had the misfortune to bump the boat into the sea floor so hard that the bailing pump had to work non-stop, and despair was gett...

Oldra - big arms depot in rock cave

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

During the Second World War, there was on the island of Oldra a depot with large quantities of weapons and other war materials. The depot was disclo...

Storsundet - important base for resistance activity during the war

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Storsundet in Solund became an important base and a hub for resistance activity in the Sogn district during the war. The Shetland traffic used the p...

Utvær lighthouse - the landmark furthest to the west

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 Solund shipping lanes - communication arteries between north and south

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Many a travelling sailor at the helm has wished that the Solund sea-lanes were much shorter. A good thing, then, that the islands were blessed with go...

Ships going down and running aground in Solund

Ulukke / Accident

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The archipelago of Solund was brutal for sailing vessels in strong westerly winds. But motor vessels went wrong as well, with tragic consequences. A...

Herring bays and seine rocks

Published: 29.03.2000

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Nature was generous in providing herring bays and mackerel coves in Solund. Fjord branches from north to south were ideal places for plankton in the s...

The steamship quay - economic and social innovation

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

With the steamship quays, the communities got a new look. In the 1920s, after years of hazardous toil in boarding boats, the first quays in Solund a...

The first roads in Solund

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...

"Springar" from Solund

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A variant of the traditional folk dance "springdans" is the Solund "springar". This dance, and fiddle music written down after fiddle players in wes...

Husefjellet - signal station in the mountain

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

From the signal station on Husefjellet the Germans could monitor the traffic through the shipping lane of Indre Steinsund. In addition, they had an ...

Tungodden - signal station in a rain of bullets

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

It is hard to believe that the Germans would build a signal station on the outermost point of Oddenova. The temptation became too great for the alli...

Hugøy - signal station on Hugøyknolten

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Drawn back on the highest knoll, and built into the terrain, the lookout post at Hugøy was located, difficult to detect from the shipping lanes in t...

Filippiner-Lund famous and loved missionary

People and Society

Person / Person

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

David Olai Lund, better known as Filippiner-Lund, is regarded as one of our greatest missionaries. He saw early where he had to go and prepared very c...

The potato shipwreck at Seglsteinen

Skipsvrak / Ship wreck

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In the pitch-dark night in December 1944, a German convoy is sailing north across the waters of Sognesjøen. No lighthouses are lit, yet the leader b...

The old schoolhouse at Hardbakke

People and Society

Skulehus / School building

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Hardbakke was the second place in Solund which had a schoolhouse. From 1870 onwards, the schoolchildren could climb up the stone steps to a spacious c...

"Påting" - environment friendly young coalfish fishing

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In early evening in the summer, a fleet of motor boats from western Solund headed west. Their destination was the numerous fishing grounds far out, ...

The old youth association house at Hardbakke

Forsamlingshus / Assembly house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

After years on the road between schoolhouse, private homes, and vicarage barn, it was an unbelievable relief for the Hardbakke youth association when ...

Water level marks in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Plakett / Plaque

Published: 19.12.2001

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Along the entire Norwegian coast, so-called water level marks were chopped into the rock in the 19th century. 123 such marks are known today, and two ...

Clip fish-drying in Solund

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 19.12.2001

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Botnavatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...

Toftøyna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Gullbotnen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Kvernes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Møkstrafjordøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...

Drøna

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

Ulven

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squee...

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Neumann

Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...

Huglo

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

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 ...

Finnås

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...

Siggjo

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...

Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...

Kattnakken–Stovegolvet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The highest mountainous area on Stord, including Kattnakken, Midtfjellet and Stovegolvet, has more in common with the mountainous terrain on the mainl...

Vatlestraumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

The Hess family business at Buskøy

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The old patrician seat of Buskøy, with a trade and inn-keeping license from 1705, has been the home of several enterprising and successful people. For...

Haganes

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 ...

Ågotnes - crystals

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Turøyvegen

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...

Herdla – glacial deposits

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...

Ask - jordbær

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

Hanøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

Golta - Gneiss

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

Spildepollen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

The bedrock of western Norway

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Much is hidden from us, but we know some of the main features in the history behind the different rock types and minerals that surround us. The Hordal...

The Precambrian Era and Precambrian basement rocks

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Almost nothing is as solid, unchangeable and stable as the Norwegian Precambrian basement rocks. Here, there are no volcanic eruptions or violent eart...

Hordaland as high as the Himalayas - the Caledonian mountain chain

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Himalaya Mountain Chain is being formed by the Indian continental plate colliding w the Asian continent. This happens because the earth’s continen...

The mountain chain disappears – and the dinosaurs arrive!

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Caledonian mountain chain is an example of how plate movements and continental drift can cause collisions and the upheaval of huge mountain chains...

Einstapevoll - slates

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...

The Losna knights - important men in our national history

People and Society

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

During the 1300s and the 1400s, Losna was the seat and the base of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. A good nose for fi...

Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Ølve - Mining

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

All in all there are ten known copper mines and two iron mines on the Ølve peninsula. Geologically, the nine mines on Varaldsøy Island also should be ...

The Valen Fault

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Lykling - gold

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Brian Robins Haakon Fossen

During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples...

Krokavatnet

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...

Gaupås

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Sandviksfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge sla...

Marmorøyen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Hereiane

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...

Memorial stone over fallen on Hersvik churchyard

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 25.03.2003

Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa

On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...

Shore seine fishing for fat herring in Solund

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A rusty bolt in a bay can be the only visible memory of shore seine fishing, from times when the sheer momentum of the herring shoal coming from the w...

Litlandsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Nils Georg Brekke

Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period ...

Bergsdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...

Skreien

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing - big fisheries in the 1950s

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In the course of the 1950s, tuna fishing became big fisheries, which in the summer season employed a great many fishermen and vessels from Solund. The...

Lussand - geology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjor...

Froastad

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Villand Reutz

RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...

Vesoldo

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...

Kvamskogen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The different bedrock types that got shoved in over Hordaland in Cambro-Silurian times still remain, layer by layer, almost like a cake. But at Kvamsk...

Holmengrå

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Sunde

Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like...

Bernhard Færøyvik - pioneer in coast vessels history

Person / Person

Published: 25.03.2003

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Bernhard Færøyvik from Solund was one of our most prominent vessel historians. He was a pioneer as well as an adviser in drawing and visualizing the o...

Memorial stone over fallen on Solund churchyard at Hardbakke

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 25.03.2003

Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa

On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. F...

Memorial stone for fallen on Husøy churchyard at Straumen

People and Society

Monument / Monument

Published: 25.03.2003

Author: Hans H. Steinsund Hermund Kleppa

On each of the three churchyards in Solund, there is a memorial stone with the names of the 16 from Solund who were victims of the Second World War. T...

Many-sided activities vital in Solund

Fiske / Fishing Jordbruk / Farming

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

In order to survive on the rugged islands in the west, the people had to harvest from the sea as well as from the land. The money came more easily fro...

Hårteigen

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...

Kvalvikane

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...

Matskorhæ

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

QUARTZ AND ANATASE...

Skytjedalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Fishing ground bearings - the key to the harvest of the sea

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Most of the fishing ground bearings (called ¿méd" in Norwegian) are today forgotten. But once, having good fishing bearings for oneself could be compa...

The fishing industry at Færøy

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The seine-drying facility at Færøy is enormous. Yet it is only one part of the fishing industry which grew up and expanded in this place in the course...

Mjølfjell

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

Nordheim

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...

Hamlagrø

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...

Rallarvegen

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...

Buadalsbrotet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOSSIL SCREE ...

Vassfjøro

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen

ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Askvik

Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended...

The salteries - sea houses moved from the trading posts

Sjøbu / Sea house

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A large number of houses from the westernmost parts of Solund have been on the move. Still, none have been more exposed and have tasted more of the ...

Begla - weapons depot with sinister shadows

Krigsplass / War site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The bay of Beglevågen in westernmost Solund must be the smallest in the country. Here the resistance movement had a weapons depot during the Second ...

Ancient relics in bog and stone

Historisk plass / Historical site

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The rocky ground in Solund did not invite people to carve art into it. But there were numerous shelters which were suitable as living quarters for t...

Utvær "skipreide" - area of defence with "leidang" ships and beacons

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The Solund islands are on the doorstep of communication across the North Sea, centrally and strategically, with good harbours and plenty of hiding p...

Wartime Shetland traffic - fishing boats go west

Transport / Transport

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

A short distance to Shetland and a rugged coastline with good harbours and excellent hiding places for people and vessels were the reasons why Solun...

Sloops in the Sognefjord trade

Transport / Transport

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

From times immemorial, the people from Solund have bartered and sold their produce in Bergen and in communities along the Sognefjord. The cargo vess...

Bergesfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...

Espevik

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are ...

Eldsfjellet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Håkon Austrheim

The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...

Lurøyane

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Manger

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Mangerite is a rock type that was first made famous in a treatise by the Bergen geologist Carl Fredrik Kolderup in 1903. The rock type got its name fr...

Stall

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Bergen Arcs have an unusually sharp boundary to the bedrock in the east. Geologists think that this was caused by movements in the earth's crust d...

Vågenes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

On Vågenes, on one of the prominences out toward Eitrevågen, one finds garnets in anorthosite. The garnets are both older, and not least bigger, than ...

Conglomerate for nuisance, benefit, and decoration

Naturformasjon / Natural structure

Published: 25.03.2003

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

The glacier did not reach out to the westernmost islands of Solund. In return, it left a rich collection of conglomerate stone eastward on the islands...

Indrøy trading post

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Hans H. Steinsund

Clearly visible in the shipping lane of Ytre Steinsund, the trading post of Indrøy is situated. It is a striking example of how a self-made man buil...