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![The long house at Golta, Sund](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_276-1.jpg?itok=qlke6iyO)
Golta- Long house
In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters was started in West Norway – an ambitious mapping of everything that came under the name “Registration of Culture and Geography in West Norway”. One of the places of which material was gathered in 1938 was an old multi-room house at Golta; new and interesting material for the researchers from the Historical Museum, but well known within the local building tradition through several generations.
![Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_393-1.jpg?itok=d1meAEuf)
Ullensvang church
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1309. At that time the present Gothic stone church must have been new. Judging by the style in the western portal and the eastern chancel windows, the church must have been built around 1300 or just before, probably by builders from Bergen influenced by the English Gothic style.
![Goltasund bridge and Goltasundet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_276_goltasundet_150.jpg?itok=1CBSE3io)
Goltasundet
For generations the land-seine was the most important tool for catching herring and mackerel, and therefore a suitable casting bay was worth its weight in gold. Goltasundet (the Golta sound) on Golta was such a place. Here the herring often drifted in and fantastic casts might be made here.
![Geologists from all over the world come to study the veined bedrock (the dark stripe in the picture) at Spildepollen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sund_9.jpg?itok=Guc62QqZ)
Spildepollen
The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching resulted in the North Sea collapsing in and also to large faults forming west of Hordaland and on the mainland. Austefjorden in Sund follows one of these faults.
![The Salting shed at Trælevika.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_275-4.jpg?itok=20MdCbWg)
![Bergesfjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_31.jpg?itok=i9o6PSWe)
![The lobster park in Espevær](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bomlo_39.jpg?itok=QWK2IaA7)
![One of the employee's homes.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_7.jpg?itok=g8bMYKUS)
Lykling- gold
During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples were laid out for sale. In the old mining area there are still gold miners hunting for the precious metal. But, the big adventure stories are a thing of the past.
![Siggjo from the south. (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_52.jpg?itok=ZLhD-gho)
Siggjo
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate from one or several volcanoes that spewed out glowing lava and ash. But, the shape of the mountain, as it appears today, formed later and by completely different forces.
![The eider population at Bømlo has increased sharply during the last decade.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fuuugler.jpg?itok=gor6FPw4)