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![The soil tongues below Jomfrunuten.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_36.jpg?itok=aOfkkEth)
Jomfrunuten
Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patterns in stone and earth.
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)
![Shelduck.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/askoyyeah.jpg?itok=TnBLHIqS)
Herdleflaket
Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other diving birds all year round, but most in winter.
![Cirque in Dyrdal in Lindås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_22.jpg?itok=YmoL_BEr)
Dyrdal
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has developed gradually as the glaciers have grown - and melted again - in several episodes: from small cirques, we see innermost at Dyrdal, to larger fjords, like at Mas fjord further out.
![The south side of Raunøya.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_21.jpg?itok=1rzpCAcc)
Raunøya
The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden.
![Botnavatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_20.jpg?itok=q4QcNNrR)
![Section from a sea map from the Danish Sea Map Archive from 1798, drawn by Poul Løvernørn.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_18.jpg?itok=PD2tmRI1)
Fitjarøyane
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie systematically in rows. The islands are divided by long sounds, for example Trollosen, Nuleia and Hjelmosen, which are oriented in a south-southeast to north-northwesterly direction.
![Strandflat and scree by land](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_14.jpg?itok=4i8IcPpe)
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)
![Herdla](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_26.jpg?itok=62ypMXDe)
Herdla- Migrating birds
Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of years: HERDLA is the main airport for migrating birds during their autumn migrations.