Mykle is a lake in the municipality of
Kongsberg in
Viken county
Viken may refer to:
*Viken, Scandinavia, a historical region
*Viken (county), a Norwegian county established in 2020
*Viken, Sweden, a bimunicipal locality in Skåne County, Sweden
*Viken (lake), a lake in Sweden, part of the part of the Göta cana ...
,
Norway.
Mykle is located below
Bonden
Bonden is a hill in Buskerud, Norway. It is located to the border with Telemark and the municipalities of Siljan and Skien Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of ...
mountain near the border with
Telemark. Mykle is part of the
Siljan watershed (''Siljanvassdraget'') formed by rivers with headwaters at
Skrimfjella
Skrimfjella is a mountain of Buskerud, in southern 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 Scand ...
which flow into
Farris
Farris is a 20 km long fresh water moraine-dammed lake near the Norwegian coastal town Larvik. The lake would have been a salt water fjord had it not been dammed by an end moraine left by the latest ice age
An ice age is a long perio ...
lake at
Larvik
Larvik () is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality ...
. The watershed is developed with four power stations and was protected against further development in 1973. Mykle offers trout and perch fishing.
See also
*
List of lakes in Norway
This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in Norway, sorted by county.
For the geography and history of lakes in that country, see Lakes in Norway, including:
* List of largest lakes in Norway
* List of deepest lakes in Norway
Akershus
*Bjørk ...
References
Lakes of Viken (county)
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