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The potato cellar at Verastunet is still in good condition.

Verås

19.05.2018 - 19:58

The fields have been affected by many landslides

Velure

19.05.2018 - 13:28

Hårteigen

Hårteigen

12.03.2019 - 15:33

Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monument for the mighty rock layers that once covered the entire plateau.

Boathouses in Breiviksunde

Breiviksundet

24.06.2018 - 15:33

Skogsnøya

Skogsøyna

16.06.2018 - 18:30

There isn't much forest on Skogsøyna today, but that there is, has been planted. There is not much wildlife, either. But, quite a lot of birds pass by Skogsøyna during migration time. Ther is no other place along the coast where you can better observe the seabird migrations.

Smedholmen, Fitjar

Smedholmen

30.03.2018 - 20:10

Botnavatnet

Botnavatnet

29.03.2018 - 12:00

Strandflat and scree by land

Landa

19.06.2018 - 16:06

Today there are only a few farmers that grow potatoes in Fitjar.

Fitjar- potatoes

19.12.2018 - 18:18

The deep agricultural soils in Fitjar are found especially in the area between Lake Storavatnet and Breivika. The many stonewalls in the area reflect that the earth probably was full of stones and stone blocks. The stones that couldn't be dug out had also a function: they stored heat that helped to grow potatoes.

Section from a sea map from the Danish Sea Map Archive from 1798, drawn by Poul Løvernørn.

Fitjarøyane

18.06.2018 - 20:30

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.

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