Rundemanen is a mountain in the city of
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
By May 20 ...
in
Vestland
Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...
county,
Norway
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. Considered one of the
Seven Mountains which surround the city, its elevation of makes it the second highest of them all. The mountain is a part of the same
massif
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as the neighboring mountains of
Fløyen,
Blåmanen, and
Ulriken, but is not easily visible from Bergen since it sits behind Fløyen.
Still, Rundemanen's low-difficulty trails that offer scenic views of neighboring mountains and islands west of Bergen make them popular footpaths, only taking about 3-4 hours to traverse from Bergen's city center.
Bergen radio
In 1912, with funding from the
Norwegian parliament, the Bergen
radio station
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was constructed on top of Rundemanen. The station housed Norway's first long distance coastal radio, allowing for increased naval safety through direct communication with ships off the coast. In 1927, the station's crew assembled their own
shortwave antenna and receiver equipment, becoming the first radio station in Norway to receive a shortwave
telegram
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pi ...
.
The station was staffed up until 1982, when the lodging facilities that housed the station's staff were demolished. Its official closure came on March 18, 2004, but later regulations in 2011 called for the preservation of the site as a cultural monument of Norway's history of
telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
.
See also
*
List of mountains of Norway
References
Mountains of Bergen
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