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Skoddetinden
Skoddetinden is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain has three main peaks. The tallest peak lies on the east side of the mountain and the southern peak marks the border between Vang Municipality and neighboring Hemsedal Municipality in Viken county. This peak is the northernmost point in Viken (and the old Buskerud county). The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Suletinden and Sulefjellet to the northwest; Høgeloft to the southwest; Øyre, Kljåkinnknippene, and Ørnenosi to the southeast; and Tverrfjellet to the northeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suletinden
Suletinden is a mountain in Norway. The mountain sits on the border of Vang Municipality in Innlandet county and Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about west of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Sulefjellet, Høgeloft, and Skoddetinden to the southeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ... References Lærdal Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet Mountains of Vestland {{Vestland-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tverrfjellet (Vang)
Tverrfjellet is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Suletinden and Sulefjellet to the northwest, Skoddetinden to the west, Kljåkinnknippene and Ørnenosi to the south, and Øyre and Grindene to the southeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ørnenosi
Ørnenosi is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrfjellet to the north, Kljåkinnknippene and Skoddetinden to the northwest, Høgeloft to the west, Storebottegge and Rankonosi to the southeast, and Øyre to the northeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kljåkinnknippene
Kljåkinnknippene is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrfjellet to the north, Skoddetinden and Suletinden to the northwest, Høgeloft to the southwest, and Ørnenosi and Øyre to the southeast. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øyre
Øyre is a mountain in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about southwest of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrfjellet, Skoddetinden, and Kljåkinnknippene to the northwest; Ørnenosi to the southwest; Storebotteggi to the south; Rankonosi and Ranastongi to the southeast; and Grindane to the east. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ... References Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulefjellet
Sulefjellet is a mountain in Norway. The mountain sits along the border of Vang Municipality in Innlandet county and Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county. The tall mountain is located in the Filefjell mountain area, about west of the village of Vang i Valdres. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Suletinden to the northwest, Skoddetinden and Tverrfjellet to the east, and Høgeloft to the south. See also *List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ... References Lærdal Vang, Innlandet Mountains of Innlandet Mountains of Vestland {{Vestland-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innlandet
Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The new county has an area of , making it the second largest county in Norway after Troms og Finnmark county. The county name translates to "The Inland" which reflects that the county is the only landlocked county in Norway. The county covers approximately 17% of the total area of the mainland area of Norway. It stretches from the Viken county and the Oslo region in the south to Trøndelag county in the north. In the northwest, the county borders Møre og Romsdal and the Vestland county in the west. To the east the county borders the Swedish counties of Värmland and Dalarna. The northern and western areas of the county are dominated by the mountainous areas Rondane, Dovrefjell and Jotunheimen. The Galdhøpiggen mountain is located with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains Of Norway By Height
There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic isolation refers to the shortest ''horizontal'' distance one would have to travel to find a higher summit. Location of peaks Most of these peaks are in the municipalities of Lom, Skjåk, Luster, and Vågå, connected to the mountain chain that reaches its prominence with Jotunheimen. There are also several peaks in Dovrefjell, Rondane, Dovre, Lesja, and Folldal that also reach above 2000 meters. All the peaks are to be found in 14 topographical maps ( Norge 1:50000) published by the Norwegian government cartography office, of which 21 peaks are in ''1518 II Galdhøpiggen'', 18 in ''1618 III Glittertinden'', and 13 in ''1617 IV Gjende''. The northernmost is in the Dovre area, meaning there are no 2000 m peaks in northern Norway, ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Høgeloft
Høgeloft is a mountain on the border between the municipalities of Lærdal (in Vestland county) and Hemsedal (in Viken county), Norway. At above sea level, it is the highest mountain in the Filefjell mountain range. Høgeloft one of the mountains in the Hemsedal Top 20 group. Høgeloft is located about east of the village of Borgund in Lærdal, not far from the European route E16 highway and the old Filefjell Kongevegen road. The lake Juklevatnet lies at the southern base of the mountain and the lake Eldrevatnet Eldrevatnet or Eldrevatn is a lake in the municipality of Lærdal in Vestland county, Norway. The lake lies at an elevation of above sea level. It is located about southeast of the village of Borgund, not far from the European route E16 hig ... lies to the southwest of the mountain. References Mountains of Viken Mountains of Vestland Lærdal Hemsedal {{Vestland-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buskerud
Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Hardangervidda mountain range in the northwest. The county administration was in modern times located in Drammen. Buskerud was merged with Akershus and Østfold into the newly created Viken County on 1 January 2020. On the 23 February 2022 Viken County Council voted in a 49 against 38 decision to submit an application to the Norwegian government for a county demerger. Etymology The county was named after the old manor Buskerud ( non, Biskupsruð) (Biskopsrøysa) located on the west side of the Drammen River in Åmot, Modum municipality. The first element is the genitive case of ', 'bishop' (referring to the Bishop of Hamar), the last element is ' n 'clearing, farm'. The farm was one of the largest in Buskerud, and the original name of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viken (county)
Viken is a county under disestablishment in Eastern Norway that was established on 1 January 2020 by the merger of Akershus, Buskerud and Østfold with the addition of three other municipalities. Viken was controversial from the onset, with an approval rating of about 20% in the region, and the merger was resisted by all the three counties. Viken has been compared to gerrymandering. The county executive of Viken determined in 2019, before the merger had taken effect, that the county's disestablishment is its main political goal, and the formal process to dissolve Viken was initiated by the county executive in right after the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election in which parties seeking to reverse the merger won a majority. The political platform of the government of Jonas Gahr Støre states that the government will dissolve Viken and re-establish Akershus, Buskerud and Østfold based on a request from the county itself. On 22 February 2022, the regional assembly of Vik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemsedal
Hemsedal is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Trøym. Hemsedal lies on the Norwegian National Road 52 (Rv 52). Hemsedal is located northwest of Oslo and from Bergen. In 1897, Hemsedal was separated from the municipality of Gol to become a municipality of its own. General information Name The Old Norse form of the name was ''Hemsudalr''. The second element is ''dalr'', which means "dale" or "valley"; the first element is usually taken as the genitive case of the river name ''Hemsa'' (now Hemsil) of unknown derivation, although Sophus Bugge believed that it might derive from the Old Norse ''hemsa'', ''hefnsa'' or ''hofn'', meaning "going to pasture". The Norwegian word ''hems'' ("bed built in a small loft room") is named after the valley of Hemsedal. Coat-of-arms The coat-of-arms is from modern times. The arms were granted on 2 October 1992 and wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
