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editor — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 14:32:00 +0000

SURROUNDINGS. To the W of the town rises the hill of Byhaugen (76 m 250 ft; fine views), extending as far as the Ryfylkefjell to the NE. 3 5 km (2 miles) SW of the town is the Ullandhaug (131 m 417 ft) with a telecommunications tower (lookout platform) and a plaque commemorating Harald the Fair-Haired’s naval victory in 872, which gave him control of the whole country. 10 km (6 miles) NW of the town, at Viste, are the remains of Stone Age troglodytic dwellings. In the fjord to the N of the town are several islands of varying

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Travel plan to Scandinavia

editor — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:35:00 +0000

Kaupanger (Husum Motell, 32 b.), on the N shore oftbeAmlabugt, is connected by ferry with Revsnes, Gudvangen and Ardalstangen. It has a fine 13th c. stave church (restored 1862) and an open-air museum, the Heibergske Samlinger (old houses). E of Kaupanger, the Sognefjord splits up into the Lusterfjord, which runs N towards the Jotunheim (147), the Ardalsfjord to the E and the Laerdalsfjord to the SE. The Lusterfjord, 45 km (30 miles) long, owes the milky colouring of its water to the glacier-fed streams which flow into it. At Urnes, on the E side of the fjord, is one of

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Scandinavia Vacations

editor — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:10:00 +0000

Formation of the fjords During the last Ice Age, some 3 million years ago, the whole of Scandinavia was covered with a massive ice sheet, reducing in thickness towards the coast. The existing river valleys were gouged out by the ice to ever greater depths often as deep as the rocks rearing above the valley were high. Since along the coast the ice was thinner the fjords were gouged out to a lesser depth at their mouths. The bank at the mouth of a fjord may be only some 180 m (600 ft) deep, while farther inland depths of up

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