Bolstadfjorden is a long

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, Icel ...

Vaksdal is a municipality in the county of Vestland, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordhordland. The administrative centre is the village of Dalekvam. Other villages in Vaksdal include Dalegarden, Flatkvål, Helle, Nesheim, ...

and

Voss Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, ...

municipalities in

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, 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 cit ...

county, Norway. The Bolstadfjorden is a branch of

Veafjorden Veafjorden (historically, the Vedåfjorden) is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. The long fjord flows between the mainland and the island of Osterøy in Vaksdal municipality. There is one bridge across the fjord, the Kallestadsundet Bridge n ...

and a continuation of Vikafjorden. Vikafjorden meets Bolstadstraumen at Straume and the mouth of Bolstadfjorden. It is the innermost point of the fjord system surrounding the city of

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, secon ...

.Bolstadfjorden
at Norgeskart.no by Statens kartverk Dahl, Blick auf den Tyssefoss im Bolstadfjord (1836)

Bolstadfjorden is deep with a threshold of only which creates a strong tidal current. Bolstadfjorden has a surface area of . There is a threshold at creating two basins, the outer . The

Vosso Vosso is a river in Voss municipality in Hordaland, Norway. The river starts at Tvildemoen, Vossevangen, where the two rivers Strandaelvi and Raundalselvi meet. The river continues through the Vangsvatnet and Evangervatnet before ending in the Bol ...

river flows into Bolstadfjorden and brings freshwater from a catchment area. Freshwater inflow peaks in May to June. Freshwater or

brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estua ...

water on the surface obstructs circulation of the heavier saltwater leaving the saltwater in the deeper part deprived of oxygen. Measurements in April and August 2006 showed indicated that there was no oxygen at or deeper. In April the layer of brackish water was about deep, while in August the brackish water was deep.Aarseth, I., Nesje, A., & Fredin, O. (2014). ''West Norwegian fjords.'' Geological Society of Norway (NGF), Trondheim, 2014. Holtedahl, H. (1967). Notes on the formation of fjords and fjord-valleys. ''Geografiska Annaler. Series A. Physical Geography,'' 49(2/4): 188-203. The main road from Bergen-Voss-Oslo (

European route E16 European route E16 is the designation of a main west-east road through Northern Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Sweden, from Derry to Gävle, via Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, previously by ferry to Bergen, Voss, through the Gudvanga Tunnel and th ...

) runs along the south shores of the fjord. The Voss Line originally ran along the south shore, partly through 10 short tunnels. When the

Bergen Line The Bergen Line or the Bergen Railway ( no, Bergensbanen or nn, Bergensbana), is a long scenic standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Osl ...

in 1987 was shifted deeper into the bedrock (through the long Trollkona tunnel), the E16 highway partly took over abandoned tunnels and rail tracks along Bolstadfjorden.Aspenberg, Nils Carl (1999). ''Fra Roa til Bergen: historien om Bergensbanen.'' Oslo: Baneforlaget. .

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