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Sogndalsfjorden
Sogndalsfjorden is a fjord in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the mouth of the river Arøyelvi, which flows out of the lake Hafslovatnet. It then flows to the southwest before emptying into the large Sognefjorden at its mouth between the villages of Nornes and Fimreite. The Norwegian National Road 5 highway crosses the fjord between the villages of Sogndalsfjøra and Kjørnes. The Norwegian County Road 55 County Road 55 ( no, Fylkesvei 55) is a highway which runs between the municipalities of Lom and Høyanger in Norway. The section across Sognefjellet, known as Sognefjellsvegen, is designated a National Tourist Route. Also a short section at ... runs along the northern shore of the fjord, the entire length of the fjord. The innermost part of the fjord is also known as the ''Barsnesfjorden''. See also * List of Norwegian fjords References {{authority control Fjords of Vestland Sogndal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fimreite Norafjorden
Fimreite is a small village in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. The village sits on the south side of the mouth of the Sogndalsfjorden, where it empties into the main Sognefjorden. It is located near the end of a peninsula about southwest of the village of Sogndalsfjøra and about southwest of the village of Kaupanger. The village of Nornes lies across the Sogndalsfjorden from Fimreite. Fimreite was the site of the Battle of Fimreite in 1184, a naval battle during the civil war era in Norway. One set of the Sognefjord Spans crosses the Sognefjorden just west of Fimreite. Commemoration In 1984, a memorial stone was unveiled by King Olav V of Norway to commemorate the 800-year anniversary of the Battle of Fimreite. The obelisk was erected in the nearby village of Nornes. At that time, the historic play ''Slaget ved Fimreite'' and the composition ''Klokkesong'' (1984) by composer Arne Nordheim Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fimreite
Fimreite is a small village in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. The village sits on the south side of the mouth of the Sogndalsfjorden, where it empties into the main Sognefjorden. It is located near the end of a peninsula about southwest of the village of Sogndalsfjøra and about southwest of the village of Kaupanger. The village of Nornes lies across the Sogndalsfjorden from Fimreite. Fimreite was the site of the Battle of Fimreite in 1184, a naval battle during the civil war era in Norway. One set of the Sognefjord Spans crosses the Sognefjorden just west of Fimreite. Commemoration In 1984, a memorial stone was unveiled by King Olav V of Norway to commemorate the 800-year anniversary of the Battle of Fimreite. The obelisk was erected in the nearby village of Nornes. At that time, the historic play ''Slaget ved Fimreite'' and the composition ''Klokkesong'' (1984) by composer Arne Nordheim Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogndalsfjøra
Sogndalsfjøra is a village in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. It is located where the river Sogndalselvi runs out in the Sogndalsfjorden, a branch of the large Sognefjorden. The village is located about northwest of the village of Kjørnes, about northwest of the village of Kaupanger, and about southeast of the village of Fjærland. The village sits at the intersection of Norwegian National Road 5 and Norwegian County Road 55. The village has a population (2019) of 3,995 and a population density of . Sogndalsfjøra is home to the association football team Sogndal Fotball. The team is in the Norwegian Premier League, Tippeligaen and plays at the Fosshaugane Campus. The area is home to major tourism industries, along with sawmills, lumber production, and a slaughterhouse. The ''Lerum Konserves'', the largest Norwegian producer of juice and jam, is located here. Sogndalsfjøra is also the home of the regional police station for inner Sogn. Stedje Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogndal Municipality
Sogndal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansverk is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other villages include Kaupanger, Kjørnes, Fimreite, Nornes, Norway, Nornes, and Fjærland. Sogndal Airport, Haukåsen is located southwest of Kaupanger. The Norwegian language, Norwegian dialect spoken in Sogndal is called ''sognamål''. In 1917, a farmer in Sogndal (Kato Linde) plowed up the Eggja stone, a gravestone with runic alphabet, runic inscriptions important for the history of the Old Norse language. The municipality is the 84th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Sogndal is the 96th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 12,097. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 10.8% over the previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nornes, Norway
Nornes or Norane is a village in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the Sogndalsfjorden, just east of its mouth where it empties into the main Sognefjorden. The village of Fimreite lies across the fjord from Nornes. The village sits about southwest of the municipal centre of Sogndalsfjøra and about east of the village of Hermansverk. Norum Church is located on the east side of Nornes. Norwegian County Road 55 runs through the village, connecting it to Sogndalsfjøra and Hermansverk. Commemoration In 1984, a memorial stone was unveiled by King Olav V of Norway to commemorate the 800-year anniversary of the Battle of Fimreite. The obelisk was erected in Nornes since the battle happened in the fjord between Nornes and Fimreite. At the unveiling, the historic play ''Slaget ved Fimreite'' and the composition ''Klokkesong'' (1984) by composer Arne Nordheim Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjørnes
Kjørnes is a small village area in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the inner part of the Sogndalsfjorden, about southeast of the municipal center of Sogndalsfjøra and about northwest of the village of Kaupanger. Kjørnes is a suburb or bedroom community for the village of Sogndalsfjøra. The village area sits along Norwegian National Road 5 on the steep, forested, hill leading down to the shore of the fjord. The village has a population (2019) of 804 and a population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ... of . References Villages in Vestland Sogndal {{Vestland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based, but the County Governor is based in Hermansverk. The county is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form (the others are neutral as to which form people use). Vestland was created in 2020 when the former counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane (with the exception of Hornindal municipality, which became part of Volda municipality in Møre og Romsdal county) were merged. History Vestland county is a newly created county, but it has been inhabited for centuries. The area was made up of many petty kingdoms under the Gulating during the Middle Ages. The northern part was the known as ''Firdafylke'' (now the Fjordane region; Nordfjord-Sunnfjord), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sognefjorden
The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (, en, Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords ( no, Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway. Located in Vestland county in Western Norway, it stretches inland from the ocean to the small village of Skjolden in the municipality of Luster. The fjord gives its name to the surrounding district of Sogn. The name is related to Norwegian word ''súg-'' "to suck", presumably from the surge or suction of the tidal currents at the mouth of the fjord. Geography The fjord runs through many municipalities: Solund, Gulen, Hyllestad, Høyanger, Vik, Sogndal, Lærdal, Aurland, Årdal, and Luster. The fjord reaches a maximum depth of below sea level, and the greatest depths are found in the central parts of the fjord near Høyanger. Sognefjord is more than deep for about of its length, from Rutledal to Hermansverk. Near its mouth, the bottom rises abruptly to a sill about below sea level. The seabed in Sognefjord is covered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Ireland, Kamchatka, the Kerguelen Islands, Labrador, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Nunavut, Quebec, the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile, Russia, South Georgia Island, Tasmania, United Kingdom, and Washington state. Norway's coastline is estimated to be long with its nearly 1,200 fjords, but only long excluding the fjords. Formation A true fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by ice segregation and abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. According to the standard model, glaciers formed in pre-glacial valleys with a gently sloping valley floor. The work of the glacier then left an overdeepened U-shaped valley that ends abruptly at a valley or trough end. Such valleys are fjords wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafslovatnet
Hafslovatnet is a lake in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. The lake lies at an elevation of , has a surface area of , and a water volume of . It serves as a reservoir for the hydroelectric power station in Årøy. The primary inflow of the Hafslovatnet is via the short river Soget from the lake Veitastrondsvatnet. The primary outflow is the river Årøyelvi, which flows south into the Barsnesfjord, an inner part of the Sogndalsfjord, which, in turn, is a northern branch of the Sognefjord. The eponymous village of Hafslo lies at the northern shore of the lake. The eastern end of the lake lies at a distance of less than from the village of Solvorn Solvorn is a village in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the Lustrafjorden, the innermost part of the Sognefjorden. The village sits directly across the fjord from the village of Orne ..., which lies at the northern shore of the Lustrafjord. The we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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