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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, ...

Botnavatnet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...

Toftøyna

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

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 ...

Kvernes

Bedrock
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...

Slåttene

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Steinevik

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - botany

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

Møkstrafjordøyane

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid
GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

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...

Ulven

Bedrock
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...

Villelia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Raudlia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

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...

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

Bedrock
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...

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...

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...

Digernes

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...

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 ...

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 ...

Finnås

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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...

Moster

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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...

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...

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 ...

Ågotnes - crystals

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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

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...

Herdla - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Ask - jordbær

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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...

Golta - Pygmy willow

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Spildepollen

Bedrock
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...

Kalandsvika

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

The bedrock of western Norway

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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!

Bedrock
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...

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...

Einstapevoll - slates

Bedrock
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...

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...

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 ...

Ølve - Mining

Bedrock
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 ...

Ølveshovda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

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 Valen Fault

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

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...

Lykling - gold

Bedrock
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

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...

Floteskaret

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Tungesvikstranda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Langebudalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Gaupås

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

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

Sandviksfjellet

Bedrock
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...

Fløyfjellet

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Vidden

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth 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. ...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

Litlandsvatnet

Bedrock
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 ...

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...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Bergsdalen

Bedrock
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...

Moastølen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
TROLL FOREST AT MOASTØLEN...

Skreien

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

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...

Lussand - geology

Bedrock
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...

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 ...

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...

Froastad

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Villand Reutz
RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...

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...

Kvamskogen

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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...

Leirvågen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland
A marsh is a grassy meadow that is strongly influenced by salt from the sea. This type of nature is abundant in Denmark, among other places. The flatl...

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...

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...

Kvalvikane

Bedrock
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...

Lote

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
BRIDAL OAK AT LOTE – THE THICKEST IN NORWAY ...

Matskorhæ

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
QUARTZ AND ANATASE...

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...

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...

Skytjedalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Mjølfjell

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

Nordheim

Bedrock
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...

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....

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 ...

Hamlagrø

Bedrock
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...

Fadnesskaret

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
DECIDUOUS FOREST IN FADNESSKARET ...

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...

Osafjorden

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
WARM-LOVING FLORA ...

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...

Buadalsbrotet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...

Vassfjøro

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

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

Bedrock
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...

Bergesfjellet

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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 ...

Geitaknottane

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Morten Hage Bjørn Moe
Many travellers between Mundheim and Gjermundshamn are captivated by the expansive view toward Øynefjord, Varaldsøy and Folgefonna. The barren pine fo...

Eldsfjellet

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Manger

Bedrock
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

Bedrock
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...

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...

Vågenes

Bedrock
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 ...

Skuggestranda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
PARADISE FOR MOSSES ...