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Brandasund Sound, Bømlo

Brandasund

22.08.2018 - 16:11

On Gisøya Island, on the west side of Brandasund Sound, there is a very privileged trading post and traveller's Inn from the 1600s, with the North Sea as its nearest neighbour. In 1991 a road was built over Bømlo out to these islands, but for thousands of years the sheltered harbour here was a main stopping place along the outer coast. During the great herring period of the 1700s and 1800s, Brandasund was a centre for the herring fisheries on the Sørafeltet fishing grounds. Today, the area belongs to the municipality of Bømlo.

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.

Rosemåling

Frette

06.03.2019 - 15:48

Fossil scree

Buadalsbrotet

12.03.2019 - 15:21

Finnås and Finnåsvika

Finnås

12.03.2019 - 15:38

At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We must go to Hawaii or Island to find as fine structures as at Bømlo.

Den gamle handelsstaden på Tjernagelsholmen kring 1920 (foto: ukjent)

Tjernagelsholmen

06.05.2019 - 10:42

Mosterhamn

Mosterhamn

03.09.2020 - 10:50

Mosterhamn is one of the old privileged trading posts situated centrally in the shipping lane, whether the ships sailed on Langenuten, Nyeleia through Fitjar or into the Hardanger Fjord. From prehistoric times Bømlo and Moster were the first landing places when arriving from the west; a landscape with good harbours.

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