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Kljåkinnknippene
Kljåkinnknippene is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrfjellet to the north, Skoddetinden and Suletinden to the northwest, Høgeloft to the southwest, and Ørnenosi and Øyre to the southeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than . The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of or more. The topographic isolation refers to ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skoddetinden
Skoddetinden is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain has three main peaks. The tallest peak lies on the east side of the mountain and the southern peak marks the border between Vang Municipality and neighboring Hemsedal Municipality in Buskerud county. This peak is the northernmost point in Buskerud county. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Suletinden and Sulefjellet to the northwest; Høgeloft to the southwest; Øyre, Kljåkinnknippene, and Ørnenosi to the southeast; and Tverrfjellet to the northeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than . The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of or more. The topographic isolation refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tverrfjellet (Vang)
Tverrfjellet is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Suletinden and Sulefjellet to the northwest, Skoddetinden to the west, Kljåkinnknippene and Ørnenosi to the south, and Øyre and Grindene to the southeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than . The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of or more. The topographic isolation refers to ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ørnenosi
Ørnenosi is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrfjellet to the north, Kljåkinnknippene and Skoddetinden to the northwest, Høgeloft to the west, Storebottegge and Rankonosi to the southeast, and Øyre to the northeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than . The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of or more. The topographic isolation refers to ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øyre
Øyre is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrfjellet, Skoddetinden, and Kljåkinnknippene to the northwest; Ørnenosi to the southwest; Storebotteggi to the south; Rankonosi and Ranastongi to the southeast; and Grindane to the east. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than . The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of or more. The topographic isolation refers to ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innlandet
Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken (Norwegian county), Viken on the same date). The new county has an area of , making it the largest county in Norway after the division of the old Troms og Finnmark county in 2024. The region was known as Opplandene or Opplanda since the middle ages. Historically part of Akershus, Oplandene County existed from 1757 to 1781, when it was divided into Christians County and Hedemarken County, also known as Western and Eastern Oplandene. In 1919 the two counties were renamed Oppland and Hedmark, and in 2020 they were again merged under the name Innlandet (with the exception of Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality, which went to the new county of Viken (county), Viken). This present name is a newly constructed name with no historical basi ... [...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] |
Filefjell
Filefjell is a mountainous area in Norway. It is located between Lærdal in the Vestland county and Valdres in Innlandet county. It is the historical, as well as modern, main route, linking Western Norway and Eastern Norway. The European route E16 highway passes through Filefjell. Etymology Filefjell or sometimes Fillefjell, might be a double-name as "file" is thought to be derived from Old Norse word ''Fjáll'', the same root that evolved into the modern word "fjell". Thus Filefjell in English would be "Mountain-Mountain". Geography Filefjell stretches from Lærdal Municipality in the eastern part of Vestland county, at the innermost part of the Sognefjorden, to Vang Municipality in Valdres in the western part of Innlandet county. In the north, it borders the western part of the Jotunheimen mountain range. To the south, it meets with the Buskerud county border. The European route E16 crosses the mountain and reaches its highest point at the Varden. The road follows a valley thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least above the surrounding land. A few mountains are inselberg, isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. mountain formation, Mountains are formed through tectonic plate, tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through Slump (geology), slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce Alpine climate, colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the Montane ecosystems, ecosystems of mountains: different elevations hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vang Municipality
Vang is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vang i Valdres. Other villages in Vang include Hænsgardane, Nystuen, Øye, Ryfoss, and Tyinkrysset. The municipality is the 55th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Vang is the 298th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,636. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 2.4% over the previous 10-year period. General information On 1 January 1838, the prestegjeld of Vang was established as a civil municipality (see formannskapsdistrikt law). On 1 January 1882, a small area of Vang (population: 31) was transferred into the neighboring Øystre Slidre Municipality. The municipal boundaries have not changed since that time. Name The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old '' Vang'' farm () since the first V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vang I Valdres
Vang i Valdres or Grindaheim is the administrative centre of Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the south shore of the lake Vangsmjøse, about west of the village of Ryfoss and about southeast of the village of Øye. The 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 ... highway runs through the village, heading west through the Filefjell mountains on the way to the west coast of Norway. The historic Vang Church is located in the village. References Vang, Innlandet Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suletinden
Suletinden is a mountain in Norway. The mountain sits on the border of Vang Municipality in Innlandet county and Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about west of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Sulefjellet, Høgeloft, and Skoddetinden to the southeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than . The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of or more. The topographic isolation refers to ... References Lærdal Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet Mountains of Vestland {{Vestland-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
