Trysfjorden is a
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, Ice ...
located in the municipality of
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...
in
Agder 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 mouth of the long fjord sits just west of the village of
Trysnes and just northeast of the village of
Ă…lo
Ă…lo is a village in Kristiansand municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located on the west side of the mouth of the Trysfjorden, about southwest of the village of Trysnes and about east of the village of Harkmark in neighbor ...
. The
European route E39
European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other single road in Eu ...
highway runs along the inner part of the fjord, just west of the village of
Lohne.
The deepest parts of the fjord reach about deep. In the mud at the bottom, scientists have discovered
crustaceans
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
that they believe are indigenous to the bay. Trysfjord has several islands and islets. The islets of Storholmen, Notholmen, and Urholmen lie just outside of Røsstad. Near the villages of
Trysnes and Lastad lies the island of Lastadholmen which in recent years has had the largest colony of
terns in
Southern Norway. The mouth of the fjord lies just south of Lastadholmen where the fjord empties into the
Skaggerak.
See also
*
List of Norwegian fjords
This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway. In total, there are about 1,190 fjords in Norway and the Svalbard islands. The sortable list includes the lengths and locations of those fjords.
Fjords
See also
* List of gla ...
References
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Fjords of Agder
Geography of Kristiansand