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Bjørn West-museum

Matre- Bjørn West museum

17.06.2018 - 16:35

The south side of Raunøya.

Raunøya

31.03.2018 - 21:11

The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden.

Ask- The king's estate

12.06.2018 - 16:56

Ulevn Camp around 1915.

Ulven camp

16.06.2018 - 16:03

Raudlia

Raudlia

15.05.2018 - 13:39

Villelia

Villelia

15.05.2018 - 13:43

Geologist William Helland-Hansen examining a quartz conglomerate in the Ulven Syncline on one of the hills by the north west end of Lake Ulvenvatnet.

Ulven

03.01.2019 - 15:16

In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squeezed into the bottom of an ancient oceanic crust, made of gabbro and greenstone, in the heart of the Caledonide mountain chain.

Finnås and Finnåsvika

Finnås

12.03.2019 - 15:38

At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We must go to Hawaii or Island to find as fine structures as at Bømlo.

Bergesvatnet Lake with Skogafjellet to the left.

Skogafjellet

18.06.2018 - 20:21

You have to travel to Scotland in order to find pine forests similar to those at Bømlo. The nearness to the sea has contributed in different ways to shaping one of the westernmost pine forests in Norway.

The eider population at Bømlo has increased sharply during the last decade.

Sørøyane

18.12.2018 - 19:50

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