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The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.

Mjøsvågen

18.06.2018 - 20:03

Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.

Sculptures in the bedrock

Herand- geologi

11.12.2018 - 14:12

Gneiss.

Frøland- Liarostunnel

16.06.2018 - 17:24

Soft shapes in the hard mountain.

Grasdalen

12.03.2018 - 13:08

Ulevn Camp around 1915.

Ulven camp

16.06.2018 - 16:03

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.

Onarheim

19.06.2018 - 17:45

Dalskarvatnet

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

17.12.2018 - 12:40

Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedrock on Stord was much nearer to America at that time than today.

Bergesfjellet

Bergesfjellet

12.03.2018 - 13:17

Gildrehola

Gildrehola

12.03.2018 - 12:53

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