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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...

Skogseidvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Skogseidvatnet is the most famous fishing lake in Hordaland, with good stocks of both char and trout. There is fishing here throughout the year: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lysekloster - Mushroom flora

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Olav Aas
The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from t...

Sjøbøelva river

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Pøyla

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Anders Lundberg

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...

Ulvensletta

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Bondevik

Ulvenvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Ulvenvatnet is thought to be the most species rich wetlands in the municipality. Despite this, the area is not protected, nor is it likely ever t...

Villelia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Oselva

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Arve Tved
Oselvo is the biggest waterway on the Bergen peninsula, with sources in Gullfjellet and Sveningen. There is a fall of only 60 metres along the entire ...

Søfteland

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Kåre Utaaker
If you drive between Søfteland and Ulven on a clear spring morning, or an evening in late autumn, you are advised to be careful on the turns. The temp...

Os valley

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Raudlia

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

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...

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...

Stølsdalen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The grey alder forest down by the river in Stølsdalen is full of life. The many birds are very busy finding enough to eat from day to day – but the bi...

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...

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...

Sålesnes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen, Nils Georg Brekke, Atle Sollesnes
Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. K...

Herand - geologi

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein Jansen
SCULPTURES IN THE BEDROCK...

Oksen

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

Djønno

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
LION ANT...

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 ...

Kinso

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
SALMON OF KINSO RIVER...

Huse housing development

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Vidar Valen
RADON GAS IN THE GROUND The country's most comprehensive mapping of radon in homes has been carried out in the housing development Huse in Kinsarvik....

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...

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 ...

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...

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Sandvin

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It is not easy to know what the conditions are at the nesting grounds when one is far away in winter - perhaps in France or the Mediterranean. At Sand...

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...