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Djønno
Djønno is a small village on the Oksen Peninsula in the municipality of Ullensvang in Norway's Hardanger district, in Vestland county. Geography Djønno lies near the sea on the west side of the Eid Fjord, about south of the ferry station in Bruravik. The nearest neighboring village is Kaland, which lies further into the fjord. Djønno is known for its fruit orchards. The village first received a road connection in 1981, when it was connected by Norwegian County Road 302 to the northeast. Before that, passengers and cargo were transported to and from the village by boat. Now people from Djønno can travel much more easily to the neighboring municipalities of Granvin and Ulvik than to Kinsarvik Kinsarvik is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the end of a small bay at the confluence of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord, where they join to form the main branch of the Hardang ..., the administrative center of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian County Road 302
Norwegian County Road 5378 () is a county road in the municipalities of Ulvik and Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The road branches off from Norwegian County Road 572 at Vallaviki and continues along the west side of the Eid Fjord before terminating in Djønno. Along the way, it passes through the Djønno Tunnel. It is also named ''Tjoflotvegen'' 'Tjoflot Road' along its course in Ulvik. At the end of the county road in Djønno, a smaller unnamed road continues along the coast to Tjoflot. The road was re-numbered in 2019 because Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; literally "Parish and the Fjords") was a Counties of Norway, county in western Norway, from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsda ... counties were scheduled to merge and there were county roads in both counties with the same number. This road previously was County Road 302. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorunn Hanto-Haugse
Jorunn Hanto-Haugse is a Norwegian orchardist, comic strip author, and illustrator. Hanto-Haugse grew up on the Utitun farm in Djønno. She received a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Central England in Birmingham and she also studied premodern visual rhetoric at the University of Bergen. As an artist, she has had independent exhibitions in Bergen and Vadsø, and she has also exhibited in New York, Liverpool, and Seoul. She became well known for her comic strips ''Reveland'', ''Reform 94'', and ''Skulen'', which are all written in Nynorsk. Her comic strips are regularly published in ''Norsk Barneblad'', the street newspaper ''Megafon'', and ''Hordaland''. They also previously regularly appeared in the newspaper ''EON'' and in the magazine ''Utdanning''. They are also reprinted by ''Verdens Gang'', ''Bergens Tidende is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo. is owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norwegian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rannveig Djønne
Rannveig Djønne (born March 3, 1974) is a Norwegian folk musician from Djønno in the municipality of Ullensvang, Norway. Djønne plays diatonic button accordion and is a graduate of the Ole Bull Academy in Voss. She released her first CD in December 2008. The CD is called ''Spelferd heim – slåtter frå Hardanger og Voss på durspel'' (Spelferd Heim: Tunes from Hardanger and Voss for Button Accordion). Other performers with her on the CD are Inger Elisabeth Aarvik, Arngunn Timenes Bell, Anders Hall, Kim André Rysstad, Lajla Renate Buer Storli, and Tuva Syvertsen. They perform music based on melodies by Nils Tjoflot and others, as well as music that Djønne wrote herself. In 2023 she performed live in Lofthus, Hardanger with the Norwegian prog-rock band Panzerpappa. The concert was filmed and recorded and released in May 2024 on Bandcamp as the live album ''Skjeringspunkt'' ''("Intersection")''. It was available as an audio CD, and as a digital download with video of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eid Fjord
The Eid Fjord () is the innermost part of the Hardangerfjord, Hardanger Fjord in Norway. It extends eastwards from the Utne Fjord and Sørfjorden (Hardanger), Sørfjorden. The Eid Fjord lies in the municipalities of Ullensvang, Ulvik, and Eidfjord in Vestland county. The inner part of the ford is called the Simadal Fjord (). The villages of Ringøy and Bjotveit lie on the south side of the fjord, and Djønno lies on the north side. Further into the fjord, village on the north side include Vangsbygdi and, to the east, Bruravik. From Bruravik there was a Bruravik–Brimnes Ferry, ferry connection to Brimnes on the south side of the fjord. This ferry was part of the route between Bergen and Oslo across the Hardangervidda Plateau on Norwegian National Road 7. In 2013 the ferry connection was replaced by the Hardanger Bridge. At Bruravik the Osa Fjord () extends to the northeast. The outermost part of the Osa Fjord is also known as the Bagns Fjord (). Deeper into the fjord, it makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ullensvang
Ullensvang is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the Odda (town), town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Hordaland, Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd, Ullensvang, Vikebygd, Alsåker, Botnen, Hordaland, Botnen, Eitrheim, Horda, Norway, Håra, Røldal, Seljestad, Hordaland, Seljestad, Skare, Tyssedal, Jondal (village), Jondal, Herand, Kysnesstranda, and Torsnes, Hordaland, Torsnes. The main inhabited part of Ullensvang municipality lies just to the west of Hardangervidda National Park, which covers most of the Hardangervidda plateau, Europe's largest mountain plateau. Most inhabitants live in the narrow coastal mountainsides and valleys along the Hardangerfjorden and Sørfjorden (Hardanger), Sørfjorden. The largest urban areas in Ullensvang are Odda, Kinsarvik, Jondal, and Lofthus. The Norwegia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinsarvik
Kinsarvik is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the end of a small bay at the confluence of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord, where they join to form the main branch of the Hardangerfjorden. The village lies along the Norwegian National Road 13 and it has a ferry port with regular routes that connect it to Utne and Kvanndal across the fjord. The village has a population (2019) of 555 and a population density of . Due to its important location along the Hardangerfjorden, Kinsarvik has been an important location since the Viking Age. Kinsarvik has been the site of Kinsarvik Church since the 12th century, serving the people of the whole region. The parish of Kinsarvik was made into a municipality in 1838. Kinsarvik Municipality existed as a municipality off and on from 1838 until 1964 when it was merged into Ullensvang. This village was the administrative centre of Ullensvang until 2020 when the municipality w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulvik
Ulvik is a municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality stretches from the Hardangerfjord to the mountains that reach above sea level. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ulvik (village), Ulvik. The villages of Osa, Norway, Osa and Finse are also located in Ulvik municipality. The municipality is the 158th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Ulvik is the 329th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,056. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 5.1% over the previous 10-year period. Of the municipality's total population, nearly half live in the village of Ulvik (village), Ulvik at the end of the Ulvikafjorden. The vast majority of those who do not live in the village of Ulvik live on the farms surrounding the village or at the end of the Osa Fjord in the village of Osa. In 2016, the chief of police for Vestlandet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granvin
Granvin is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1891 until its dissolution in 2020 when it merged with Voss Municipality. The municipality was located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of Granvin was the village of Eide, which is also called "Granvin". About half of the residents of the municipality lived in the municipal centre. The rest lived in the rural valley areas surrounding the Granvin Fjord or the lake Granvinsvatnet in the central part of the municipality. Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the municipality is the 326th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Granvin is the 403rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 933. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 4.5% over the last decade. General information The parish of ''Graven'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruravik
Bruravik is a ferry quay in the municipality of Ulvik in Vestland county, Norway. There was formerly a ferry connection from Bruravik to Brimnes in the municipality of Eidfjord. The ferry quay was equipped with waiting rooms, benches, and restrooms. The ferry service was discontinued after the construction of the Hardanger Bridge. Bruravik lies about from the municipality's administrative center of Ulvik Ulvik is a municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality stretches from the Hardangerfjord to the mountains that reach above sea level. The administrative centre of the municipality is t ..., and it is also about from Granvin, which lies to the northwest. References {{reflist Ferry quays in Vestland Ulvik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestland
Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in Hermansverk. Vestland is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form. Vestland was created on 1 January 2020, when the former counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane were merged. History Vestland county is a newly created county, but it has been inhabited for millennia. The area was made up of many petty kingdoms under the Gulating during the Middle Ages. The northern part was then known as ''Firdafylke'' (now the Fjordane region; Nordfjord-Sunnfjord), the central area was known as ''Sygnafylke'' (now the Sogn region), and the southern part was known as ''Hordafylke''. In the early 16th century, Norway was divided into four ''len''. The Bergenhus len was headquartered in Bergen and encompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
