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Etnedeltaet

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Sveil Olaf Dahl Stein Byrkjeland
During the latter half of the 1900s the big natural river deltas on Westland disappeared. Until the 1980s there was still a small, but significant rem...

Etne river

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
There is still life to be found that is just “hanging on a string”. The Etne river has been the most important river for sports- fisherman in Hordalan...

The village of Etne

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Sveil Olaf Dahl Inge Aarseth
Much of the sand and gravel that the town of Etne is built on was laid down at the end of the Ice Age and is evidence of melting glaciers and roaring ...

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...

Stordalen

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Mary Losvik
When the Etne water system was protected in 1994, preservation of the cultural landscape in Stordalen Valley was a a main objective. This is a valley ...

Floteskaret

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Skånevik - moraine

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
In Skånevik there are marks left from the ice edge that advanced during the thousand-year cold spell (Younger Dryas) that marked the end of the Ice Ag...

Tungesvikstranda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Mosnes

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
The permanently-protected Mosneselva River, with its meltwater from Folgefonna, runs out into Åkra Fjord by the roadless and uninhabited Mosnes. Those...

Langfoss

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024

Langebudalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Godske farm

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

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...

Storavatnet - Red-throated diver

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
The troll-like sounds from the Red-throated diver carry long distances between the mountains around Storavatnet. The high-pitched, haunting screeches ...

Storavatnet - shoreline

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The regulation of Lake Storavatnet has created a rare geological phenomenon: When Herlandsfossen power station taps the reservoir during the spring an...

Lonelva

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It is said that the salmon populations with the largest and the smallest salmon in the world both come from the waters that run out into the fjord sys...

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 ...