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The Fjord - a blue lung

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G. Gade

The West Coast of Norway, with its deep fjords that carve far into the high mountains, is one of the most characteristic and - many would say - beauti...

Last Ice Age

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

The continental glacier that covered Hordaland was like a great power that had decisive influence over our natural history. The glaciers which at the ...

Earth and stone

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

"Humus" is a word with great meaning. It is the soil we live from, in addition to the resources we get from the ocean. This layer of earth - sometimes...

Glaciers

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje Svein Olaf Dahl Arve Tvede Jostein Bakke

Two of Norway's - and mainland Europe's - largest glaciers, in addition to a number of smaller glaciers, lie in Hordaland. This eternal ice is easily ...

Hausberget

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The Landscape

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Johan Naterstad

If you have passed Fossli on your way eastwards, where the Vøringsfossen waterfall plummets down the ravine carved by the Ice Age, a little further ah...

Bygda Dyrdal

Landscape

Grend / Hamlet

Published: 01.10.2007

Author: Trude Knutzen Knagenhjelm

A small greenstone (greenschist) axe from the Stone Age may be an indication that there has been a settlement since prehistoric times in the village o...

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Svein Indrelid

The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy...

Landa

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

STRANDFLAT AND SCREE BY LAND...

Botnavatnet

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...

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...

Skjelbreid

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

On the east side of Lake Skjelbreidvatnet, clearly visible along the road from Eikelandsosen, we notice a farm on a terrace above a grassy hill. The h...

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 ...

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...

Ulvensletta

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Bondevik

Os valley

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

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...

Huglo

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg

The majority of Huglo is bare rock. A bit of dwarf pine forest is the only vegetation able to put down roots. Along the west- and east sides, to the c...

Fitjarøyane

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Osa

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Espen Eide

At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast wi...

Botnen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive...

Ølve

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating for building foun...

Bondhusdalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje J. Riis-Simonsen

The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s...

Melderskin

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje Endre Skaar

MELDERSKIN - ONCE A NUNATAK? Melderskin, the towering and majestic landmark at Rosendal, rises 1462 metres above sea level. The top area is smooth,...

Ulvanosa

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Some mountains have rounded shapes, while others have steep slopes and sharp edges. Ulvanosa (1246 mos.) has both. The forms reflect the type of bedro...

Langhaugane

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

THE MORAINE RIDGES AT LANGHAUGANE ...

Skorpo

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater ...

Halsnøy

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Bree...

The Valen Fault

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

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...

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...

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...

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

The West Country

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Knut Fægri

Hordaland er en scene for naturens mange vekslinger – i topografi, berggrunn, vegetasjon og dyreliv, gjennom klimaperioder og årstider. ...

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...

Isdalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Vall...

Vidden

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe

Tokagjelet

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke

There is a sharp transition between the wide valley at Kvamskogen and the narrow Tokagjelet. The transition is no less dramatic when we come out of th...

Steinsdalsfossen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: William Helland-Hansen Inge Aarseth

Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have bee...

Fyksesundet

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

"GIANT FEMALE TROLL" ...

Fykse

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

LANDSLIDE AT FYKSE ...

Hereiane

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedro...

Folgefonna

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar Inge Aarseth Stein Byrkjeland

The glacier is not only white – it is full of colour. The colours have several sources: glacial flour, desert dust, or living algae. And the light ref...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 - 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...

Skjervet - river theft

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward G...

Mundheim

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Bjørn Moe

At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the sprin...

Vesoldo

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem fr...

Rindarne moraine

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

MORAINE RIDGES The Rindarne moraine is visible from the right stretch of road in Eikedalen, toward Kvamskogen. Northeast of Lake Eikedalstvatnet it s...

Vardetangen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

WESTERN CAPE ...

Opedal

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

FRUIT-GROWING ON FLOOD DEPOSITS The old road through Opedal and Helland in Lofthus gives a beautiful introduction to the Fruit Kingdom, both when in ...

Hårteigen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monume...

Buardalen Valley

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Atle Nesje Bjørn Moe

Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mo...

Opo

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

OPO – THE RIVER THAT DOESN'T CARVE DEEPER River Opo in Odda has a fall of 88 metres over the two kilometres from Lake Sandvinvatnet to Sørfjorden. Th...

Låtefossen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many...

Grytøyrelva

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

A WELL-ACCOMMODATED RIVER...

Valldalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arvid Odland Kåre Utaaker

Valldalen or Valdalen, the name that the locals used in past times, had been a permanent settlement for a long time, and later the biggest mountain-fa...

Hæreid - geology

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Svein Olaf Dahl

The Eidfjord terrace is a gigantic ridge that reaches up more than one hundred metres from the city centre in Eidfjord. It serves as a powerful natura...

Tussafoten

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Skytjedalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Måbødalen - geology

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terr...

Vøringsfossen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: William Helland-Hansen

The official height of Vøringsfossen is 182 metres. A long time before modern measuring methods were invented, natural historians and other curious pe...

Jordalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

During the last ice ages, parts of the Voss river system were stolen and sent down Nærøydalen valley to Nærøy Fjord (Nærøyfjorden). Before this big ri...

Bømoen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Bordalsgjelet

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing st...

Rekvesøyane

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland

The sediment that was deposited from the river Dyrvo has created the fan-shaped delta Rekvesøyane. The bit of land farthest out toward the water gets ...

The Vosso river network

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede

The Vosso is Hordaland's main artery, she has never run more richly than in our times, and no other river in western Norway carries so much water. The...

Teigdalen

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke

It is not surprising that there are several folk tales connected to the large and unusual scree deposit that is found at Langeland, uppermost in Teigd...

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...

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...

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...

Fruo

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, ...

Langavassfjellet

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

ESKERS ...

Hallaråker

Landscape

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: John-Inge Svendsen

RAISED BEACHES BY HALLARÅKER-SØNSTABØ ...

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...

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