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Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen

Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen

16.06.2018 - 14:03

Hammarsland, Fusa

Hammarsland

30.03.2018 - 08:42

Vinnesleira

Vinnesleira

06.12.2018 - 11:03

Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge of the glacier made smaller advances or stopovers when it calved back at the end of the last Ice Age. This is what happened at Vinnesleira.

The combination building at Nordvik.

Nordvik

16.06.2018 - 17:27

The Nordvik seter. The prayer house to the left.

Nordvikasetret

30.03.2018 - 08:59

Slåttene

Slåttene

31.03.2018 - 19:53

Section of the lid of the chest painted around 1830, by Nils Johannesson Tveiterås

Tveit

16.06.2018 - 17:28

Iglatjødno

Iglatjødno

31.03.2018 - 19:07

Lake Tveitavatnet

Tveitavatnet

07.01.2019 - 19:14

It is difficult to imagine that a plant can grow at the same place for many thousands of years: Climate and local environment change. Different species grow up and die out. Nonetheless, some plants get established, but don't manage to spread into new areas, because the climate is at the edge of what they can tolerate. Great fen-sedge is just such a plant.

Baldellia

Ådlandsvatnet

19.06.2018 - 16:39

Plants that grow in and beside water have to be prepared for marked and rapid changes in their living conditions. They must be able to tolerate living under water without drowning, and getting totally dried out without whithering. Many swamp plants are well adapted to these kinds of changes.