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![Gjuvsland (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/navn.jpg?itok=npdQFont)
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Halsnøy
Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Breen skuva framfor seg så mykje leire frå havbotnen at Brattåsen, Toftåsen, Landåsen og Svartaberg vart samla i eitt landområde.
![The Ancient Ash Tree](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_36.jpg?itok=o_7Mt5TO)
![Maters Fjord with Holmedalsberget in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_37.jpg?itok=mDDqfdul)
Holmedalsberget
If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is a big forested area by Matres Fjord in the southwestly part of Kinnherad. Here, we find one of the largest deciduous forests in Hordaland. The forest stretches over several kilometres.
![Langhaugane, Ulvanosa in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_38.jpg?itok=bdNUBUC5)
![Møkjedalen (Bjørn Moe)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_22.jpg?itok=iPMTpA3a)
![Burial mounds from the Bronze Age at Skarvaberget, Sydnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_193_sydnes_gravhaug_150.jpg?itok=Fyg1S_87)
![Sunde, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_194_xxx.jpg?itok=7zdyKxkc)
Sunde
In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an industrial adventure that made Sunde into one of the first industrial communities in Kvinnherad.
![Tveita](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_260_tveitabotn_2_150.jpg?itok=qnyU8yR3)
![Ølve](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/landstet.jpg?itok=1EeuuxMs)
Ølve
Ølve has a special soil type. Here one finds an extra hard clay soil. This is especially noticed by those who work with excavating for building foundations and the like. Often it is necessary to use especially big digging machines and sometimes even dynamite in order to break up the compact masses. The reason for this is the growth of the glaciers toward the end of the Ice Age: The clay, that was first deposited in front of the glacier, came under great pressure when the glacier later grew and slid out over the clay.