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Finsefetene

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

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

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...

Ulvik-village

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The ice cap that covered the land during each of the 40 past ice ages over the past 2 million years of Earth's history pressed down the crust of the e...

Solskinstjørni

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
Solskinstjørni in Osa, just above Haugen farm in Norddalen, is visible only now and again, seemingly always for a period of good weather. Then it disa...

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 ...

Bergensbanen - snow measurements

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede
Opponents of the Bergen Railway used the snow argument for all it was worth. During the debate in Parliament before the decision about the route was r...

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...

Jomfrunuten

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Svein Olaf Dahl Atle Nesje
Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patt...

Nordrenut

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It must have taken a long time for the snails of Finse to make it to the mountains; six species have been found as high as 1470 m a.s.l. For the snail...

Finse

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Wenche Eide
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete wi...