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Hana
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Øystein Jansen
Finsefetene
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Rimbareid - Vestbøstad
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
At nesting time you cannot avoid hearing the calls of the curlew or the snipe along the narrow road through the cultural landscape from Rimbareid to V...
Fluøyane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
The richest seabird localities in Bjørna Fjord are FLUØYANE, a group of small and medium-sized islets just east of the entrance to Våge. Here, we see ...
Toftøyna
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...
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: ...
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...
Frølandsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
SONG SWANS IN LAKE FRØLAND ...
Frøland - Liarostunnel
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
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...
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 ...
Sjøbøelva river
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
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...
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...
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 ...
Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Neumann
Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...
Sævarhagsvikjo
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Most of the shoreline toward the sea in Sunnhordland is stony and steep. Therefore, flat tidal areas are scarce, yet these are especially important fo...
Iglatjødno
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Digernes
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Bjørn Moe
Despite the fact that the animal life on Stord is better investigated and studied than most other places in Hordaland, we were not clear about the div...
Tveit Mine
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Øystein Jansen
Engesundsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Finnås
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...
Siggjo
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...
Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...
Kattnakken–Stovegolvet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The highest mountainous area on Stord, including Kattnakken, Midtfjellet and Stovegolvet, has more in common with the mountainous terrain on the mainl...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The bedrock of western Norway
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Much is hidden from us, but we know some of the main features in the history behind the different rock types and minerals that surround us. The Hordal...
The Precambrian Era and Precambrian basement rocks
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Almost nothing is as solid, unchangeable and stable as the Norwegian Precambrian basement rocks. Here, there are no volcanic eruptions or violent eart...
Hordaland as high as the Himalayas - the Caledonian mountain chain
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The Himalaya Mountain Chain is being formed by the Indian continental plate colliding w the Asian continent. This happens because the earth’s continen...
The mountain chain disappears – and the dinosaurs arrive!
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The Caledonian mountain chain is an example of how plate movements and continental drift can cause collisions and the upheaval of huge mountain chains...
Bjellandsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Bjellandsvatnet is one of the richest wetland areas in Sveio. But, everything has its limit, and the supply of nutrients can be too much. This is...
Einstapevoll - slates
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...
Gildrehola
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Erik Lauritzen
Ølve - Mining
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
All in all there are ten known copper mines and two iron mines on the Ølve peninsula. Geologically, the nine mines on Varaldsøy Island also should be ...
Ingahogg
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Øystein Jansen
At nearly 1000 metres over sea level, on the north side of INGAHOGG mountain, the remains of a soapstone quarry have been discovered. It is said, acco...
Lykling - gold
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Brian Robins
Haakon Fossen
During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples...
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...
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 ...
Gaupås
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
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...
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...
Nygårdsparken
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
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...
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...
Marmorøyen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Skårsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
In September, 1901, a load of golden orfe fish was transported from Preussen to Bergen for stocking of Nygårdspark. One of the originators of the proj...
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...
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...
Djønno
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
LION ANT...
Matre - Salmon spot
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
BEST SALMON SPOT IN THE COUNTY...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Skreien
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...
Seglberget
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
HOUSE MARTINS IN STONE WALLS...
Granvinsvassdraget
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Randolf Knotten
After the ice age, Granvin Fjord reached all the way up under Skjervsfjossen waterfall. Just a thousand years later, as a result of the rising of the ...
Lussand - geology
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjor...
Froastad
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Villand Reutz
RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...
Aksnesholmane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
There are especially many seabirds inwards along the fjords of western Norway. There are not many islets, either, so if the birds want to nest, it is ...
Kvamskogen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The different bedrock types that got shoved in over Hordaland in Cambro-Silurian times still remain, layer by layer, almost like a cake. But at Kvamsk...
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: ...
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...
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 ...
Kinso
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
SALMON OF KINSO RIVER...
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...
Matskorhæ
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
QUARTZ AND ANATASE...
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...
Eio
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
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...
Raundalen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Thousands of years ago - when the climate was warmer than today - there was probably a lot of moose in Hordaland. We know this from finds of bone from...
Mjølfjell
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...
Vikafjellet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
The largest reindeer herd in Hordaland - outside of Hardangervidda - lives in the mountainous area between Voss/Vaksdal and Sognefjorden....
Myrkdalsdeltaet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Mykdal delta had an unusually diverse bird life, right up until 1987. The Myrkdal delta should have been protected, and the plans were prepared. Despi...
Nordheim
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...
Lønaøyane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
The Strandaelvi river is forever protected from the development of hydropower. The Lønaøyane islands – which comprise the delta furthest north in Lake...
Vosso
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Geir H. Johnsen
There is probably no bigger salmon to be found in the whole wide world than in Vosso. The average size varies from season to season of course, but for...
Hamlagrø
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...
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...
Buadalsbrotet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...
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...
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...
Krækkjavassdraget
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Few other animal species on Hardangervidda have been as much the focus of scientific research as the spotted trout. The spotted trout is considered to...
Bjoreidalen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Bjoreidalen is one of the classic bird localities on Hardangervidda. It is especially known for its wading birds, with as many as 17 of the 19 wader s...
Korsfjorden
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Nils Georg Brekke
IN DEEP WATER...
Sørøyane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
Knut Fægri
SØRØYANE - THE MOST IMPORTANT SEABIRD LOCALITY IN HORDALAND ...
Erslandsvatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
CANADA GEESE - AN IMPORT WITH AN AFTER TASTE ...
Bergesfjellet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...
Espevik
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are ...
Espevikpollen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Endre Skaar
OYSTER DAMS ...
Flakkavågen
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
BLOOD SUCKERS...
Langavassmyrane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
The Ruff lek on Langvassmyrane is the only known phenomenon of its kind on Hardangervidda. Every year it attracts hens from the whole plateau. The mar...
Geitaknottane
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Morten Hage
Bjørn Moe
Many travellers between Mundheim and Gjermundshamn are captivated by the expansive view toward Øynefjord, Varaldsøy and Folgefonna. The barren pine fo...
Vevatnet
Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Stein Byrkjeland
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...
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...
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...
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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