Skrikjofossen (also called ''Krikjofossen'') is a
waterfall
A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...
in
Ullensvang Municipality
Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd, A ...
in
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 t ...
county,
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 t ...
. The falls are located about southeast of the village of
Lofthus. Its total height is , while the tallest single drop is . It tumbles down from the
Hardanger Plateau
Hardangervidda ( en, Hardanger Plateau) is a mountain plateau (Norwegian: ''vidde'') in central southern Norway, covering parts of Vestland, Vestfold og Telemark, and Viken counties. It is the largest plateau of its kind in Europe, with a cold ye ...
.
[ Accessed on 2020-02-23.]
Gallery
File:Hardangerfjorfd in a Nutshell (3) (36497034395).jpg, Hardangerfjorfd in a Nutshell
File:Hardangerfjorfd in a Nutshell (4) (36100110970).jpg, Skrikjofossen (Krikjofossen)
File:Hardangerfjorfd in a Nutshell (6) (35688595513).jpg, Hardangerfjorfd
See also
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List of waterfalls
This list of notable waterfalls of the world is sorted by continent, then country, then province, state or territory. A waterfall is included if it has an existing article specifically for it on Wikipedia, and it is at least high, or the fa ...
*
List of waterfalls by type
The following is a list of waterfalls by type.
* Plunge: Water descends vertically, losing contact with the bedrock surface.
References
Ullensvang
Waterfalls of Vestland
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