A short visit to Haugesund (Norway/Norge)
(EN) Haugesund is a town and municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The town is the main population centre of the Haugaland region in northern Rogaland. The majority of the population of Haugesund lives in the main urban area surrounding the city centre, with the northwestern part of the municipality being fairly rural. Despite being a fairly young town, the areas around Haugesund were lands of power during the Viking Age. Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, had his home at Avaldsnes, very close to the present town. Fairhair was buried at Haraldshaugen, a burial mound adjacent to the Karmsundet strait. This site is the namesake of the town and municipality of Haugesund. The national monument at Haraldshaugen was raised in 1872, to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872. The Battle of Hafrsfjord has traditionally been regarded as when western Norway was unified under a single monarch for the first time.
The urban village area of Haugesund (population: 1,066) was declared to be a town and it was separated from the municipality of Torvastad on 1 February 1855 to become a separate municipality of its own. On 1 January 1911, a small urban area of Skåre (population: 3,847) that directly abutted the town of Haugesund was transferred to Haugesund. On 1 January 1958, the remainder of the municipality of Skåre was merged with the town of Haugesund, creating a larger Haugesund municipality. On 1 January 1965, the island of Vibrandsøy (population: 70) was transferred from Torvastad municipality to Haugesund.
Haugesund has a strong historical bond to the sea and especially the herring. In the earlier years, the coastal waters of Haugesund were a huge source for fishing herring, and the town grew accordingly. The protective straits of Smedasund and Karmsund gave the town potential to grow in both fishing and shipping. Even to this day, Karmsund is one of Norway's busiest waterways. The town is still growing geographically even though the population has increased only moderately the last decade. Today the herring is long gone, and the town is turning more and more towards the petroleum industry, like its neighbouring town to the south, Stavanger.
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A little piece of Norway
I've captured the pictures by myself, but the song is written by Alphaville, a German rock / synthpop - group. The song is named Forever Young, and is in this slideshow performed by Martin Tallstrom. Martin's YouTube username is pinofluvios.
The pictures are taken in Mosterøy in Rennesøy Municipality near the Stavanger area, and in Stavanger itself. Stavanger is a Norwegian city in Rogaland (a county).
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Kreuzfahrt zum Nordkap (10) mit Mein Schiff 1: Vorbeifahrt am Nordkap auf dem Nordpolarmeer
Cruise to the North Cape. Das Nordkap ist ein steil aus dem Eismeer emporragendes Schieferplateau (Kap) auf der norwegischen Insel Magerøya und befindet sich auf dem Gebiet der nach ihm benannten Kommune Nordkapp. Es liegt auf 71° 10′ 21″ nördlicher Breite, rund 2100 Kilometer vom Nordpol entfernt und 514 Kilometer nördlich des Polarkreises.
Das Nordkap ist nicht der nördlichste Punkt Europas, es ist jedoch ein bedeutendes touristisches Reiseziel. Im Sommer gibt es für etwa zweieinhalb Monate die Mitternachtssonne, im Winter dagegen gelangt die Sonne etwa zweieinhalb Monate lang auch tagsüber nicht über den Horizont.
Das Nordkap befindet sich nicht auf dem Festland, sondern auf einer diesem vorgelagerten Insel. Der nördlichste Punkt des Festlandes ist die Landzunge Kinnarodden (71° 08′ 01″ nördlicher Breite) auf der Nordkinnhalbinsel. Auch auf der Insel Magerøya, auf der auch das Nordkap liegt, befindet sich auf 71° 11′ 08″ nördlicher Breite ein noch 1400 Meter weiter nördlich gelegener Punkt, nämlich die westlich benachbarte Landzunge Knivskjellodden.
North Cape is a cape on the northern coast of the island of Magerøya in Northern Norway. The cape is in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The European route E69 highway has its northern terminus at North Cape, since it is a popular tourist attraction. The cape includes a 307-metre-high cliff (1,007 ft) with a large flat plateau on top where visitors can stand and watch the midnight sun or the views of the Barents Sea to the north. A new visitor centre was built in 1988 on the plateau with panoramic views, a café, restaurant, post office, souvenir shop, and a so-called super video cinema.[1]
The steep cliff of North Cape is located at 71°10′21″N 25°47′04″E, about 2,102.3 km (1,306.3 mi) from the North Pole. Nordkapp is often wrong referred as the northernmost point of Europe. However, the neighbouring Knivskjellodden Cape, actually extends 1,450 m (4,760 ft) much less to the north. Furthermore, both of these points are situated on an island; the northernmost point of mainland Europe is located at Cape Nordkinn (Kinnarodden) which lies about 5.7 km (3.5 mi) further south and about 70 km (43 mi) to the east. That point is located near the village of Mehamn on the Nordkinn Peninsula. The northernmost point of Europe including islands is hundreds of kilometres further north, either in Russia's Franz Josef Land or Norway's Svalbard archipelago, depending on whether Franz Josef Land is considered to be in Europe or in Asia.
The North Cape is the point where the Norwegian Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, meets the Barents Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. The midnight sun can be seen from 14 May to 31 July. The sun reaches its lowest point between 00:14 and 00:24 during those days.
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