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Potholes

Hausberget

31.03.2018 - 21:20

Klokkarvatnet

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

03.08.2018 - 12:30

Sandven hotel

Sandven

26.05.2018 - 16:39

The hotel in 1928.

Fleischers Hotel

19.06.2018 - 17:49

Buardalen and Buarbreen before 1880.

Buardalen Valley

24.06.2018 - 15:34

Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mostly Englishmen and Germans, to the magnificent landscape in front of the glacier. Back at the hotel in Odda they could enjoy drinks containing ice from the glacier.

Eitrheimsneset with

Odda- The industrial town

25.03.2019 - 14:47

In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. This signalled a new era.

Sculptures in the bedrock

Herand- geologi

11.12.2018 - 14:12

Skårsvatnet

Skårsvatnet

26.05.2018 - 23:34

In September, 1901, a load of golden orfe fish was transported from Preussen to Bergen for stocking of Nygårdspark. One of the originators of the project was the well known doctor Klaus Hanssen. Thirteen years later, Hansen was called to help. Would he please come to Øystese to assist the district doctor Peter Munch Søergaard in his attempt to combat tuberculosis in the village? Hanssen came - and had in his suitcase living "goldfish" from Nygårdsparken.

The soil tongues below Jomfrunuten.

Jomfrunuten

03.12.2018 - 14:13

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.

Bordalsgjelet

Bordalsgjelet

13.01.2019 - 13:52

Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing stones, the water has carved into the bedrock for thousands of years - and is still doing so today.

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