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![Løno](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjell_10.jpg?itok=PM-cG2ym)
Løno
Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Løno is one of Hordaland’s most isolated and exposed recreational areas. The islands west of Sotra are some of the county’s most stable nesting localities for seabirds.
![Frøland power station and lake Frøland.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_4.jpg?itok=7O9c4Igu)
Frøland
Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was thus one of the first power-producing municipalities in western Norway. With its subsequent expansion and new power stations, about 400 gigawatts of electricity per hour were produced on average each year. This is enough to meet the energy needs of 25,000 households.
![The combination building at Nordvik.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_250-2.jpg?itok=CxcVlWaV)
![Curvy scours in the bedrock (](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sund_23.jpg?itok=fisI_JUk)
Golta- Gneiss
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and make it dangerous to walk along the shoreline. When the storms have calmed, the results of their work comes into view.
![Archaeological fins from the sites at Risøya.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_276-2.jpg?itok=hxoLOQ5s)
![St. Ludvig.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_274-4s.jpg?itok=gXvooPsW)
Tyssøy
B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church or the chapel of the Holy Ludvig (Louis). Two large stone blocks had lain in the western wall of the church’s nave, and this wall showed a length of 16 meters in the terrain.
![Blomvågen 1851.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/oygard_25.jpg?itok=at3JP7DM)
Blomvågen
"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås who had been interviewed by the newspaper. He thought that he had discovered a 120 000 year old whale bone, remains of life from before the last Ice Age.
![Skogsnøya](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/oygard_35.jpg?itok=OaSxJidy)
Skogsøyna
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.
![Swans](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/oygard_33.jpg?itok=jlmRiXVg)
Tjeldstømarka
There is no place in Hordaland where there are so many over-wintering song swans as in Tjeldstømarka. And there are few places in the county that have had this birdfowl as a guest for as long.
![Toftestallen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_13.jpg?itok=zrSHKUwq)
Toftestallen
The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic Ocean. The most common place of origin is nonetheless the North Sea. When these waves break over the skerries and islets along the shore, or on the rocky outermost islands, their energy is released. This takes the form of turbulence in the water and sea spray up on land. Can the enormous energy contained in the waves be exploited?