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Toftøyna

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Toftestallen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G. Gade

The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic...

Power line

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

When the terminal at Kollsnes in Øygarden was going to be extended in the 1990s, environmental organisations, the local community and politicians dema...

Strømsnes

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Bjarne Fossen

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 ...

Grasdalen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

MARBLE AND KARST ...

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

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland

Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Frølandsvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SONG SWANS IN LAKE FRØLAND ...

Kvitingen

Weather and climate

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar

Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. T...

Lona

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Steinevik

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Møkster - seabirds

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fish and guests smell after three days, it is said. The cormorants do not need this long. If you follow your nose, the cormorant is not difficult to f...

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 - 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...

Glesvær

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

He wondered, surely, the fisherman who in 1769 found a 3.3 metre-long silvery shining sea creature at Glesvær. Perhaps he hadn't heard the legend abou...

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...

Litlesotra

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

CORAL REEFS ...

Fjell river network

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Geir H.Johnsen

There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill a...

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...

Ågotnes - Stonechat

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

STONECHAT ...

Tjeldstømarka

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

There is no place in Hordaland where there are so many over-wintering song swans as in Tjeldstømarka. And there are few places in the county that have...

Skogsøyna

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There isn't much forest on Skogsøyna today, but that there is, has been planted. There is not much wildlife, either. But, quite a lot of birds pass by...

Blomvågen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås wh...

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...

Fossen Bratte

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

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

Herdla - Migrating birds

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of y...

Herdleflaket

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other divi...

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 ...

Kollevågen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

From 1938 until 1975 there was a large amount of trash dumped in Kollevågen. A lot of the garbage from the city of Bergen ended up here. The dump was ...

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...

Åsane

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...

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...

Byfjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G.Gade

Swimming and fishing is fully possible in Byfjorden (By Fjord). The water is of good quality most places, after considerable resources have been used ...

Store Lungegårdsvannet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G.Gade

LUNG IN DANGER OF DISAPPEARING...

Byparken

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

It isn't true that hungry students have hunted down basking ducks in the city park Byparken in their spring fervour, as rumours may have it. But, it i...

Fjellsiden

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Møllendal graveyard is the winter home of the urban crows in Bergen. Those that do not want to stay overnight in the graveyard, perch in the lush deci...

Fløyfjellet

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: 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. ...

Fjøsanger

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

Fjøsanger is known among ice age researchers from around the world. Under an excavation in 1975-77, geologists from the University of Bergen found lay...

Nordåsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G.Gade

The Post-war Era came to Fana with its population growth and modern sanitary equipment. This had nearly catastrophic consequences for Nordåsvatnet as ...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Rådalen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bernt-Håvard Øyen

"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be...

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Korsfjorden

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Nils Georg Brekke

IN DEEP WATER...

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