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Rope making

Sandviken

12.06.2018 - 19:56

Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced rope and fishing tackle for West and North Norway.

At lake Gaupåsvatnet.

Gaupås

19.05.2018 - 19:24

Marmorøyen

05.12.2018 - 16:24

The mill in Kvernapollen

Kvernapollen

16.06.2018 - 18:29

When the workers came to Kollsnes to start on the work with the landing for the gas terminal from the Troll field in the North Sea, they found the ruins of an old farm mill at Kvernapollen.

From the mountainous rocks just below Sandvikshytte cabin on Sandviksfjellet.

Sandviksfjellet

06.03.2019 - 15:22

On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge slabs of rock, during slow, but powerfulprocesses of transport. This conglomerate shows, in quite a special way, the enormous powers that were active during the collision between Norway and Greenland over 400 million years ago.

This little mountain in the picture sticks up because the layers are tilted on their sides.

Toftøyna

27.03.2019 - 15:07