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Hesjedals waterfall

Published: 06.02.2024

Hana

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

Matre - Salmon spot

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

BEST SALMON SPOT IN THE COUNTY...

Haugsdalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland

Early in the 1900s there were much larger salt water deltas in Hordaland. But, essentially all of the larger river deltas got filled in and regulated ...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Frøyset river network

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Frøyset river network is protected from power station-building - not because of its pristine nature - but because it is a typical river network for th...

Dyrdal

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has d...

Raunøya

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden....

Andvikedalen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe

ELM- AND LIME TREE...

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 ...

Hellandsfossen

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SALMON LADDER IN HELLANDSFOSSEN WATERFALL ...

Mostraumen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back acro...

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...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke

The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

Nedre Helland - skred

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Many still remember when the avalanche struck Nedre Helland, on the 14th of August, 1953 14:30 o'clock. All of the buildings at one of the farms and t...

Steinslandsvatnet

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

SNOW AVALANCHE FANS AND DEPRESSIONS ...

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...

Eksingedalen - landscape

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountains...

Lake Nesheimvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Ekso

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

In the late 1800s, Ekso was known among the nobility in England as having among the best salmon rivers. In summer the Lords could haul in big fish of ...

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...

Skipshelleren

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland, Svein Indrelid

For vel 7000 år sidan var Straume ein av dei beste – om ikkje den beste – veideplassen i Hordaland. Steinalderfolket som busette seg ved Skipshelleren...

Skreien

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Fedje bog

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

The wild rabbit is really native to Northwest Africa, but the Ancient Romans introduced them to large parts of Europe. Not to Norway, rightly enough: ...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Peter Emil Kaland

Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Innarsøyene

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

SEA BIRDS ON INNARSØYANE ...

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...

Vardetangen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

WESTERN CAPE ...

Lyngoksen

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Peter Emil Kaland

The swamp layer at Lyngoksen is unusually thick, and the island therefore stands out from the rest of the islands along the coast. Even up on the ridg...

Purkebolsvatnet

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Lake Purkebolsvatnet is perhaps western Norway's largest sleeping city - for birds. They come in the thousands, usually in later summer and autumn. Th...

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...

Grunnosen

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

A PROTECTED NERITIC ...

Veafjorden

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Some decades ago, Veafjord and the currents in toward the bigger rivers were the most likely places to see harbour seals in Hordaland. In the summer f...

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...

Eikangervågen

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

TUFTED DUCKS IN EIKANGERVÅGEN BAY ...

Fossevatna

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Fossevatna, some few kilometres north of Alversund, is one of the finest wetland areas in Lindås. Especially the birdlife has made this place well kno...

Husebø

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland

When the Corncrake returned to Nordhordland, it came as no surprise that Husebø was the place it chose. Here, remnants of the old cultural landscape a...

Lure Fjord

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Both Lure Fjord and Lindåsosane to the inside give good living conditions for rare marine organisms: jellyfish, shellfish and fish. These include anim...

Lurekalven

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Mons Kvamme

Lurekalven is an unpopulated island of heather moor which is a part of the wilderness belonging to the five farms on Ytre Lygra. Between the two islan...

Leiro

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Lurøyane

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Rylandvassdraget

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

There is a lot of trout and a large char population in Lake Rylandsvatnet. The lake was stocked with char, probably in 1907. The promoters of the proj...

Myking

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

Between Lake Kvalheimsvatnet and Lake Mykingsvatnet, north of Grindheim, we find one of the biggest continuous lowland bogs in Hordaland. It is 500-60...

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...

Salhusfjorden

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland Herman G.Gade

When the debate about building a pontoon bridge over Salhus Fjord was raging, some were afraid that the bridge would disrupt the ecology of the fjord ...

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...

Romarheimsdalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Toska

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland

The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most imp...

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 ...

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