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Hesjedals waterfall

Published: 06.02.2024

Kvernhusvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Ness

Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Lavik

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Karl Egil Johansen

THE LAYMAN CHIEFTAINS FROM LAVIK...

Hana

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

Dale farm

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...

Straume - Salmon

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

From times immemorial salmon and trout have been caught with various tools in the fjord and the streams here. Finds in the Stone Age settlements at Sk...

Stamnes

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Ågot Gammersvik Øystein Jansen

Gullbrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

From written sources we know that the farm Gullbrå was in use early in the 1600s. The Apostolic church in Bergen owned land here that it rented out, b...

Hopland

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Svein Indrelid

The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in ...

Kjelstraumen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic ...

Krossøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

Furthest north in the island community Rongevær, at the entrance to Fensfjorden, lies Krossøy. Belonging to the farm are the islands of Krossøy, Husøy...

Kræmmerholmen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kræmmerholmen is one of the old privileged trading posts. From the 1600s all trading in West Norway took place in Bergen, and the farmers were obliged...

Hellisøy

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Hellisøy lighthouse was lit for the first time in 1855. The characteristic red cast-iron tower with two white belts is 33m high and a light height of ...

Vinappen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Vinappen lies on a low hill to the very west on the island. Here you have an amazing panorama of the sea. Originally the area was grazing land for cat...

Matrehola

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Knut Andreas Bergsvik

On a large gravel terrace in Matredalen (the Matre valley), a couple of kilometres from the coastal settlement Matre, lies Storseterhilleren, at the e...

Mollandseid

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

In Mollandsvågen, close by the river that runs from Mollandsvatnet (lake) into the fjord, are two water-powered circular saws and a mill. This small i...

Havrå

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the sunny, steep fjord landscape along Sørfjorden on the east side of Osterøy is the farm Havrå. The small “hamlet” is one of the few undisturbed f...

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Hamre Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

Hamre Church has, by all accounts been one of the four main churches in Horda County in the Middle Ages. Hamre was a main church for the whole of Hord...

Hosanger church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Hans Emil Lidén

On Christmas Day 1795, at 5 a.m., the lightning struck the church in Hosanger. After three hours, the timbered church from the 1600s, which had replac...

Otterstad

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the f...

Nottveit

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In one of the frame-built haysheds at Nottveit, at holding No. 3, we discover that several of the staves have a medieval look, with large dimensions a...

Stølsheimen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Dagfinn Moe Aud Karin Skagen Nils Georg Brekke

The large mountain area between Modalen, the Voss communities and Sogn is one of the finest mountain pasture areas in West Norway. In older times this...

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...

Førland

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Sætre

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE LONGHOUSE AT SÆTRE ...

Kvalvågen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

TOFTEGÅRD AT KVALVÅGEN...

Kvalvågstraumen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

WHALE HUNTING ...

Fedje traffic office

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Frank Johnsen

Trodalen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Kjetland

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On the farm Kjetland there is an old house with a loft – probably from the 1600s or early 1700s. The exterior is not radically different from other ho...

Rambjørg

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

IRON BARS AT RAMBJØRG ...

Matre - Bjørn West museum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jonas Risnes Erling Virkesdal

THE BJØRN WEST MUSEUM...

Kringlebotnen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jonas Risnes

Close to Hummelfossen (waterfall) there is a narrow path leading up the steep mountainside. The path leads to the farm Kringlebotnen, which lies in th...

Andviki

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Mjelddalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Valestrand

Dialects and arts

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Jostein Mæland

OLE BULL AND THE FOLK MUSIC ...

Valestrandsfossen - Youth centre

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kjell Andresen

VALESTRAND – A CLASSICAL YOUTH CENTRE ...

Raknes

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE EMPEROR’S COIN AT RAKNES...

Gjerstad

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Andersen

Kossdalen

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils Nonås

KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...

Mjøsvågen

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Andersen

Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises ...

Herlandsfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE POWER STATION AT HERLANDSFOSSEN...

Mo

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The farms in Modalen are situated on old, fertile sediment beds from the river or the sea – between Mofjorden and Steinslandvatnet. As far back as the...

Vaksdal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Leif Grung

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Christopher Harris

Dale

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

THE INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENT OF DALE ...

Straume - maritime environment

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE FRAME-BUILT BOATSHEDS AT STRAUME ...

Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Høvik

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

NECK RINGS FROM HØVIK ...

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...

Boga

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In the lightly undulating landscape at Boga there lies an old house with several rooms on a small rise. In fact it looks like three houses built into ...

Alverstraumen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The hostelry in Alverstraumen was in operation in 1660, but we do not know for certain how old the place really is. From the time of the sagas the inn...

Bjørsvik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Byrkjeland

The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...

Eikangervågen

Wildlife

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

TUFTED DUCKS IN EIKANGERVÅGEN BAY ...

Verås

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

VERÅS – A FARM IN THE HEATH...

Fosnstraumen

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Anne Karin Hufthammar Knut Andreas Bergsvik

At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” he...

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...

Isdal

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Isdal one of the few clustered settlements left in the Hordaland communities, after the extensive changes taking place around the turn of the former c...

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...

Håøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Birger Odland

Håøy lies centrally in one of the main shipping lanes going into Bergen --- with Håyøsund on the south side facing Meland, and Hagelsundet facing Lind...

Holmeknappen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ture Andersen

If you come by sea to Bergen and come up the Herdle Fjord, the yellow ochre marine shed at Holmeknappen is a well known landmark to starboard as you c...

Fløksand

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid

THE MEAT KNIFE FROM FLØKSAND...

Frekhaug

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Frekhaug has been a large farm with well-off owners through many generations. The main house, a two storey building with a hipped roof, must have been...

Iden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

IDEN – A NOBLE ESTATE ...

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...

Kolåseidet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Asbjørn Toft Gunnstein Kolstad

The little cowshed which lies on the fence at Kolåseidet, constructed in connection with the stone fence, has put its mark on the cultural landscape. ...

Isdalstø

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...

Litleoksa

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE LONGHOUSE AT LITLEOKSA...

Leiro

Plant life

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Lurøyane

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Landsvik

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE CHIMNEY ROOM FROM LANDSVIK ...

Bruknappen

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

The hostelry place in Bruknappen is situated north in Radsundet, just south of Festo, by a sheltered idyllic bay, close to the main lane. Sloops both ...

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...

Odland

Livelihood and Craftsmanship

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Edvin Odland Johs. Fosse Atle Ove Martinussen

The auger smithies in Odland and Fosse were amongst those which had the largest production of augers in the period between the Wars. Martinus Fosse bu...

Lygra

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Mons Kvamme

The heath landscape on outer Lygra, Utluro and Lurekalven will in future become part of a landscape protection area, to be maintained through traditio...

Mangersnes

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Bård Kolflåth

SMALL BOATS IN THE IRON AGE At Mangersnes, in a bog just by the sea, there is a layer about one metre thick with wood that has traces of cutting, sh...

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...

Spjutøy

Communications

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Gunn Nordal

At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not rea...

Øvre Tveiten

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

On an east-facing slope above Halllandsvatnet lies the farm hamlet of Øvre Tveiten, two kilometres north of Manger. The stone hayshed lies with its ga...

Seim

Archaeology

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Indrelid Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat he...

Skaråsmyri

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

PEAT EXTRACTION IN SKARÅSMYRI...

Sylta

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

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...

Vassel

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Skule

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aud Karin Skagen

The small, white-painted schoolhouse at Vassel is a modest, but worthy representative for the school in the rural community – an institution for knowl...

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 ...

Ystebøtræet

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Tofting

Settlements, Villages, Towns

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

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