Ånderdalen National Park

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Ånderdalen National Park
Ånderdalen National Park (Norway)
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Coordinates: 69 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Location: Norway
Next city: Silsand , Finnsnes , Tromsø
Surface: 124.86 km²
Founding: 1970, expanded in 1975 and 2004
The national parks in Northern Norway (Ånderdalen is number 23)
The national parks in Northern Norway (Ånderdalen is number 23)
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The Ånderdalen National Park ( Norwegian Ånderdalen nasjonalpark ) is a northern Norwegian national park on the island of Senja . The park was founded in 1970 to preserve and protect the almost untouched coastal landscape of the island with its pine and birch forests , mountains, fjords , flora and fauna and the cultural heritage and was expanded in 1975 and 2004.

The national park belongs to the municipality of Senja in the province of Troms og Finnmark . One kilometer to the east is the Vardnesmyra nature reserve .

Geography, landscape and geology

Ånderdalen is located in the southern part of Senja. The landscape is characterized by sharp-edged mountains, numerous lakes, rivers, moors and raised bogs and untouched jungle. The unusually large and old coastal pine forests were also one of the reasons for the establishment of the national park. Some trees are around 500 years old.

The pines only grow up to about 100 moh , after that there is a vegetation zone with birch forests, which finally give way and the nature is dominated by pastures, swamps and raised bogs. The predominant rock material in the park is granite .

Flora and fauna

Around 200 flowering plants such as leg breaker , coral root and leafless avid bear grow in the park . Nevertheless, the vegetation is rather sparse, which is due to the nutrient-poor garnit soils. In the bog areas, cotton grasses , sedges and mosses are particularly common . a. Alpine helmets , swamp violets , swamp heart leaves and spotted orchid are common. Growing on the mountains a. Common heather , black crowberries , blueberries , willow and Diapensia lapponica .

Around 90 bird species live in the national park, of which black-throated grebes , gray geese , whooper swans and others also nest there. You can also often see curlews , whimbrels , dunlins , cranes and grebes . Birds that definitely do not nest in the park are e.g. B. Waxwing , Treecreeper , Green Woodpecker , and Crossbeak .

Arctic char , three-spined stickleback , trout and, more rarely, salmon live in the rivers .

The largest mammals are moose , red fox , brown hares , ermines and otters .

heritage Site

The area was not continuously inhabited, but remnants of Sami settlement from several centuries up to and including the 16th century were found.

Tourism and administration

Although there are hardly any paved paths in the park, it is a popular leisure destination for hiking.

Ånderdalen is also part of the Sør-Senja reindeer pasture area.

literature

  • Tom Schandy, Tom Helgesen: 100 norske naturperler. Forlaget Tom & Tom, Vestfossen 2008, ISBN 978-82-995682-8-9 , pp. 237-238.
  • Olaf I. Rønningu. a .: Rago. Ånderdalen (= Norges nasjonalparker. Vol. 6). Lutherstiftelsens forlag, Oslo 1973, ISBN 82-531-4054-1 .
  • Hans Kr. Eriksen: Ånderdalen. In: Den norske turistforenings årbok. 1969, ISSN  0801-5481

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