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In Norway, cruise ships are permitted to dump overboard their greywater in the postcard-narrow fjord-arms. [3] Furthermore, the news article says that defecation in public by tourists, is already a problem; the village's train station has the only public toilets, and 200,000 tourists are expected in the summer season.
Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen have a similar function in Southern Norway. [3] Map of current and closed scheduled airports in Norway. Norway is the country in Europe with the most airline trips per capita. The routes from Oslo to Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger are all amongst the ten busiest in Europe.
This excludes private airports without scheduled services. Note: Svalbard and Jan Mayen are not to scale, and not geographically correctly located in relation to each other and mainland Norway. The accuracy of the map makes accurate placement of the airports sometimes a little off. Date: 12 September 2009, 12:12 (UTC) Source: Norway_counties ...
The seabed in Sognefjord is covered by some 200-metre-thick (660 ft) sediments such that the bedrock is some 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) below sea level. The fjord is up to six kilometres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) wide. [9] The average width of the main branch of the Sognefjord is less than five kilometres (3 mi).
Sogndal Airport (Norwegian: Sogndal lufthavn; IATA: SOG, ICAO: ENSG) is a regional airport serving Sogndal Municipality and the surrounding area in Vestland, Norway. It is situated at Haukåsen, 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) from Kaupanger and 20 kilometers (12 mi) from Sogndalsfjøra .
Sogn is a traditional district in Western Norway (Vestlandet).It is located in the county of Vestland, surrounding the Sognefjord, the largest/longest fjord in Norway.The district of Sogn consists of the municipalities of Aurland, Balestrand, Hyllestad, Høyanger, Gulen, Leikanger, Luster, Lærdal, Sogndal, Solund, Vik, and Årdal.
Flåm is one of Norway's largest tourist attractions, with an estimated half a million visitors annually. The Flåm Railway Documentation Centre provides information into the building of the Flåm Railway and the technical challenge facing this engineering work through the use of different exhibitions with text, image and sound.
Ramnefjellsfossen (previously called Utigardfossen) is the tallest in Norway and third tallest in the world and Vettisfossen is one of Norway's highest waterfalls with a vertical drop of 275 metres (902 ft). Both are located in the Jotunheim mountains. Cruise ships visit Sogn og Fjordane all summer because of the unique vistas of high mountains ...