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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 .
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.
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).
Myrdal station is located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the village of Flåm and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Aurlandsvangen.There is no road connection to Myrdal although there are some cottages and hotels in the area, served by Myrdal Station, and the nearby Vatnahalsen Station, about a kilometer before Myrdal, and 50 metres lower towards mean sea level.
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. [3] [4]
The Flåm Line starts at Myrdal Station, where it connects with the Bergen Line.. The Flåm Line runs from Myrdal on the Bergen Line to Flåm. Myrdal Station is located in a mountain pass at 863.6 meters (2,833 ft) above mean sea level (AMSL), while Flåm Station is located at 2.0 meters (6 ft 7 in) AMSL.
Sogndal Airport, Haukåsen is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Kaupanger. The Norwegian dialect spoken in Sogndal is called sognamål . In 1917, a farmer in Sogndal (Kato Linde) plowed up the Eggja stone , a gravestone with runic inscriptions important for the history of the Old Norse language.