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Vesterøya
Vesterøya (West Island) is one of two peninsulas outside Sandefjord, Norway. It is primarily known for its many beaches and idyllic coastal landscape, but there are also numerous trails used for hiking and biking.Mšbius, Aaron and Michael (2014). ''Norwegen''. DuMont Reiseverlag. Page 168. . During the Viking Age, ocean water levels were 3–4 meters higher than today. Vesterøya was, therefore, an island surrounded by waters, but became a peninsula as water levels decreased. Vesterøya was previously known as ''Velløy'', which derives from ''Vadill-øy''. West Island lies between the Sandefjordsfjord and Mefjord, southeast of the city center. The landscape is dominated by hills, mountains, forests, beaches, sloping rocks, and farm fields. The peninsula has a length of 10 kilometers. It is home to a large number of vacation homes, beaches, campgrounds, and recreational areas. Seawater levels were 20–25 meters higher 5,000 years ago, which means Vesterøya consisted of a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandefjord
Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 January 2017, rural municipalities of Andebu and Stokke were merged into Sandefjord as part of a nationwide municipal reform. This merger was the first one to take place during the reform. The city is known for its rich Viking history and the prosperous whaling industry, which made Sandefjord the richest city in Norway.Porter, Darwin and Danforth Prince (2003). ''Frommer's Norway''. Wiley. p. 158. . Today, it has built up the third-largest merchant fleet in Norway. It is home to Europe's only museum dedicated to whaling, and is home to Gokstad Mound where the 9th century Gokstad Ship was discovered. Sandefjord has numerous nicknames, including the Viking, Whaling "capital" of Norway or as the undisputed summer city of Norway. The city i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 January 2017, rural municipalities of Andebu and Stokke were merged into Sandefjord as part of a nationwide municipal reform. This merger was the first one to take place during the reform. The city is known for its rich Viking history and the prosperous whaling industry, which made Sandefjord the richest city in Norway.Porter, Darwin and Danforth Prince (2003). ''Frommer's Norway''. Wiley. p. 158. . Today, it has built up the third-largest merchant fleet in Norway. It is home to Europe's only museum dedicated to whaling, and is home to Gokstad Mound where the 9th century Gokstad Ship was discovered. Sandefjord has numerous nicknames, including the Viking, Whaling "capital" of Norway or as the undisputed summer city of Norway. The city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langeby
Langeby is a beach at West Island (Vesterøya) in Sandefjord, Norway. It is described as the city’s best beach by both Frommer's- and Fodor's Travel Guides. Besides its sandy beach, it is home to Langeby Camping which offers boat- and kayak rentals. Langeby has a convenience store and piers used for fishing and boats. The beach has sloping rocks, a floating platform, diving boards, and showers. There is also a playground as well as a soccer field and volleyball court. Langeby attracts thousands of visitors every summer. It lies near Vøra, a beach and campground which attracts summer visitors and vacationers from throughout the country. A coastal path known as ''Kyststien'' connects Langeby to Vøra. Near ''Vesterøyveien'' between the two beaches are remains from the Stone Age, discovered at an area from the ocean. Many archeological artifacts have been retrieved from this location. Tent camping is permitted on numerous nearby islets, including the Hellesøya and Buerøya. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langeby Camping, Sandefjord
Langeby is a beach at West Island (Vesterøya) in Sandefjord, Norway. It is described as the city’s best beach by both Frommer's- and Fodor's Travel Guides. Besides its sandy beach, it is home to Langeby Camping which offers boat- and kayak rentals. Langeby has a convenience store and piers used for fishing and boats. The beach has sloping rocks, a floating platform, diving boards, and showers. There is also a playground as well as a soccer field and volleyball court. Langeby attracts thousands of visitors every summer. It lies near Vøra, a beach and campground which attracts summer visitors and vacationers from throughout the country. A coastal path known as ''Kyststien'' connects Langeby to Vøra. Near ''Vesterøyveien'' between the two beaches are remains from the Stone Age, discovered at an area from the ocean. Many archeological artifacts have been retrieved from this location. Tent camping is permitted on numerous nearby islets, including the Hellesøya and Buerøya. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Østerøya
Østerøya (East Island) is one of two peninsulas outside Sandefjord, Norway. It borders in west to the Mefjord and east to the Tønsbergfjord. Tønsberg Barrel is located on the southern end of the peninsula. Tønsberg Barrel is an old beacon mentioned in '' Sverris saga''. It has been described as one of the most beautiful sites in Sandefjord. East Island lies between the Tønsbergfjord and Mefjord. It has a large number of beaches, campgrounds, recreational areas, and vacation homes. The peninsula has a length of 10 km, and is between 1 and 2 km in width. It was previously known as Yxnøy, a name which now is used for East Island’s southernmost point. Yxnøy, also spelled Yxney, is now a recreational area home to several beaches, forests, sloping rocks, hiking trails, and Tønsberg Barrel. The peninsula is now named East Island as it is located east of the Sandefjord city centre. The southern end of the peninsula contains public areas for outdoor activities, rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandefjordsfjord
The Sandefjordsfjord (), sometimes also called the Sandefjord (), is an approximately 9 km long fjord in the municipality of Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway. It is located to the west of Vesterøya. The Sandefjordsfjord is the longest of the four fjords located in Sandefjord, Norway. It is a wide fjord which gradually shrinks northbound towards the city harbor. The name dates to Sverris saga from 1200 AD. Its name derives from the name which, originally, was that of the farm just outside the present town centre, and which for hundreds of years was the vicarage of the parish of Sandeherred (Sandar), also known as – hence the . As the town came into existence, the name gradually came to be applied to it, and the need for an expression to allow references to the fjord, as opposed to the town, emerged. was the pleonastic Pleonasm (; , ) is Redundancy (linguistics), redundancy in linguistic expression, such as "black darkness" or "burning fire". It is a manifestation of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mefjord
The Mefjord (''Mefjorden'') is a small fjord in the municipality of Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway. It is a 9 km long fjord which lies in-between Vesterøya (West Island) and Østerøya (East Island). It is a narrow fjord with many minor islands and islets. There are many vacation homes on both sides of the fjord and a large campground, Strand Leirsted, is located on its east side. A vast number of vacation homes can be found along the Mefjord. Several islands in the fjord are also home to vacation homes, including Grindholmen-, Storholmen- and Brattholmen Islands. It was previously known as Midtfjorden. During the Viking Age, a royal lodge (kongsseter) was located at Geirstad (Gjekstad) in the innermost part of the fjord. It is also the fjord used when burying Olav Geirstadr-Alv and the Gokstad Ship in the 9th century.Bryn, Laurits L. (1926). ''Sandefjord og omegn''. Sandefjord Aktietrykkeri. Page 73. Retrieved on September 3, 2021, from the National Library of Norway The Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestfold University College
Vestfold University College ( no, Høgskolen i Vestfold, abbreviated as HiVe) was a university college in the county of Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. The university college's campuses were formerly located in Borre and Eik. From 2010 the whole university college was co-located at Campus Bakkenteigen in Horten. It was established 1 August 1994 by the merger of three previous university colleges ( Eik Normal School, Vestfold College Center, and Vestfold Nursing College), and has approximately 4,000 students and 450 employees. The university college has four faculties: Humanities and Education, Health Sciences, Business and Social Sciences, and Technology and Maritime Sciences. The college merged with Buskerud University College Buskerud University College ( no, italic=yes, Høgskolen i Buskerud or ''HiBu'') was a university college established 1 August 1994 and situated in Viken county, Norway. It merged with Vestfold University College on 1 January 2014 to form Buskerud ... on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaches Of Norway
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae. Sediments settle in different densities and structures, depending on the local wave action and weather, creating different textures, colors and gradients or layers of material. Though some beaches form on inland freshwater locations such as lakes and rivers, most beaches are in coastal areas where wave or current action deposits and reworks sediments. Erosion and changing of beach geologies happens through natural processes, like wave action and extreme weather events. Where wind conditions are correct, beaches can be backed by coastal dunes which offer protection and regeneration for the beach. However, these natural forces have become more extreme due to climate change, permanently altering beaches at very rapid ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Numme
Thomas Numme (born 28 February 1970) is a Norwegian television personality. He was born in Sandefjord, a son of Yngvar Numme, and took media education at Volda University College. He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ... on P3 radio and with juvenile shows before switching to TV 2 in 2003. With Harald Rønneberg, he hosted the first season of '' Idol'' in 2003 and then the Friday night show '' Senkveld''. They haves also hosted the '' Spellemannprisen'' award show. In 2006 and in 2007, Numme and Rønneberg were awarded the '' Se og Hør'' readers' TV personality of the year award. In 2018, they won the "Honorary Prize" at Gullruten. References 1970 births Living people Norwegian radio personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipsissewa
''Chimaphila umbellata'', the umbellate wintergreen, pipsissewa, or prince's pine, is a small perennial flowering plant found in dry woodlands, or sandy soils. It is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere. It grows 10–35 cm tall, and has evergreen shiny, bright green, toothed leaves arranged in opposite pairs or whorls of 3–4 along the stem. Leaves have a shallowly toothed margin, where the teeth have fine hairs at their ends. The flowers are white or pink, produced in a small umbel of 4–8 together. Ecology Although it has green leaves year-round, it receives a significant portion of its nutrition from fungi in the soil (that is, it is a partial myco-heterotroph, which is not surprising as related plants, such as ''Pyrola'', are partial or full myco-heterotrophs). Taxonomy There are four subspecies: *''Chimaphila umbellata'' subsp. ''umbellata'' – Europe, Asia *''Chimaphila umbellata'' subsp. ''acuta'' – southwestern North America *''Chimap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestfold Og Telemark
Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfold. The capital is located at the town of Skien, which is also the county's largest city. While Skien is the seat of the county municipality, the seat of the County Governor is Tønsberg. It borders the counties of Viken, Vestland, Rogaland and Agder. Telemark voted against the merger, on the basis that the regions have nothing in common and do not constitute a natural geographical, cultural, social or political entity. Regardless, the Storting voted on 7 January 2018 to merge the counties by force, and the merger took effect on 1 January 2020. Unlike Telemark or Vestfold, it does not form a traditional or cultural region, but is instead administrative. On 15 February 2022, the county council decided to vote for the future of Vestfold og Telem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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