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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 ...

Møkster - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Anders Lundberg Knut Krzywinski

Pøyla

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg

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...

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...

Løno

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe William Helland-Hansen Stein Byrkjeland
Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Lø...

The pioneers who discovered the natural history of Hordaland

People and Society
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Knut Fægri Hilde Sandvik William Helland-Hansen Bjarne Meidell Dagfinn Moe
When Professor Emeritus Knut Fægri (1909-2001) was asked to write the book's chapter about the natural science pioneers of Hordaland, he answered uneq...

Petroleum riches off the coast of Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
Already in the 1750s, Erik Pontioppidan fantasized about the possibility of petroleum in the North Sea, in "Forsøg til Norges naturlige Historie" (= S...

Espevær - lobster park

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland William Helland-Hansen
The first Lobster Park in Espevær was built in 1887, and at the most there were three here. Operations ceased in 1957. The one lobster park that remai...

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...

Godske farm

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
GODSKE AND GODSKE FARM ...

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...

Ulvikapollen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
When the lush beach area innermost in Ulvikapollen was protected, the bird life was instrumental to the decision. The plant diversity is just as impre...

Vassfjøro

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen
ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Midt-Våge

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
VISIT FROM THE UNIVERSE ABOVE ...

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 ...

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...

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...