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42 km long and almost 500 meters at its deepest. The famous Pulpit Rock and Kjerag is situated along the fjord. Because of high mountains and large lakes on the plateaus, the Lysefjord is used for hydropower generation. One of the plants has a fall of 740 meters. The mountains are, at their highest, 1 000 meters above sea level. Read more about Lysefjorden.
The Nordfjord is the sixth longest in Norway and is 105 (66 mi) kilometres long, and 565 metres (1,854 ft) deep. It encompasses the rough coastline of Stadlandet to the great blue Jostedalsbreen Glacier, Europe's largest mainland glacier. The Jostedalsbreen is one of Norway’s National Parks, and in Stryn you can visit the most famous of the glacier arms – the Briksdal Glacier. The region also includes Lake Hornindalsvatnet, Europe's deepest lake at 514 metres (1,686 ft) below sea level. The Stryn area provides almost year-round alpine skiing, and there are numerous villages, going back to pre-Viking times. The district comprises the municipalities of Stryn, Hornindal, Eid, Vågsøy and Selje.
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Nærøyfjord is 19 km long and constitutes an arm of the Aurland Fjord, which in turn is an arm of the Sognefjord. Extends to the little place Gudvangen. The fjord is only 250 meters at its narrowest point. The mountains in the area are stretching the entire 1 800 meters above sea level. Here, too, abandoned farms can be seen high up in the mountains. Nærøyfjord was in 2005 inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
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Stretching 204 km into the foot of the national parks Jotunheimen and Jostedalsbreen, the Sognefjord is Norway's longest and deepest, and the world's second longest fjord. It is 1 308 m at its deepest. Sognefjord has been an important transport source from ancient times and has made it possible to transport agricultural products, fruits, berries and fish between the villages in Sogn and Bergen. In 2004, Lewis Gordon Pugh, was the first to swim the Sognefjord lengthwise.
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