Jostedalsbreen National Park

Jostedalsbreen National Park
Location:	Vestland , Norway
Next city:	Stryn , Fjærland , Jostedalen
Surface:	1,310 km²
Founding:	October 25, 1991
	The national parks in southern Norway (Jostedalsbreen is number 10)
	The Briksdalsbreen branch of the Jostedalsbreen
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The Jostedalsbreen National Park ( Norwegian Jostedalsbreen nasjonalpark ) is a 1,310 km² national park in Norway . The park is located in the province of Vestland and belongs to the municipalities of Høyanger , Luster , Sogndal , Sunnfjord , Gloppen and Stryn , and it borders on the Nigardsbreen nature reserve .

The park was founded in 1991 to protect the largely untouched, large glacier landscape with its flora and fauna. The Jostedalsbreen , which is the largest glacier on the European mainland, is located in the national park .

Geography, landscape and geology

The national park is between 300 moh and 2,000 moh. Around the glacier there is a characteristic glacier landscape with U-shaped valleys, moraines , smooth mountains, scree, etc. It was created by the growth and movements of the glacier.

The largest rivers are the Strynevassdraget and the Loenvassdraget . The highest mountains in the national park are the Høgste Breakulen (1.952 moh.) And the Lodalskåpa (2.083 moh.).

Flora and fauna

In the valleys, at the feet of the glacier tongues, there is a great diversity of flora and fauna. Almost nothing of this biodiversity is left on the glacier itself. One of the few residents there is the snow bunting .

The most common in the areas above the tree-line most plants are, in addition to some grasses, Glacier Buttercup , Kalmia procumbens , saxifrage , cerastium cerastoides and Alpenschmiele .

heritage Site

For several centuries until 1923 there was a (trade) route across the glacier, which ran from east to west. Numerous remains of farms and huts were found at the ends of the glacier tongues.

The first tourist to visit the glacier was probably the English author and climber William Cecil Slingsby , who visited the region several times around 1880. Ludwig Hevesi describes a crossing by the alpinists Friedrich Eckstein and Aichinger in 1886 in detail. He also mentions a previous hike by the Viennese mathematician Oskar Simony there.

Tourism and administration

In addition to numerous hiking trails in the national park, there are also the tourist huts Flatbrehytta , Bødalssetra and Vetledalssetra .

Museums

There are three museums in the national park:

the Breheimsenteret in Jostedalen near Gaupne
the Jostedalsbreen Nasjonalparksenter in Stryn and
the Norsk Bremuseum in Fjærland .

Web links

Commons : Jostedalsbreen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig Hevesi: MacEcks strange travel between Constantin Opel and San Francisco. Stuttgart 1901, pp. 328-342.

literature

Sven Bjørne-Larsen, Anne Rudsengen: Jostedalsbreen and Folgefonna. (= Norges nasjonalparker. 4). Gyldendal 2008, ISBN 978-82-05-37899-5 .
Karen Weichert: The Jostedalsbreen . Skald forlag, 2008, ISBN 978-82-7959-128-3 . (Also available in English and Norwegian)
Leif Ryvarden : Norges nasjonalparker . Damm, 2005, ISBN 82-04-09324-1 .
Jarle Helgheim: Jølster: bygda og breen . Samlaget, 2000, ISBN 82-521-5734-3 .
Erik Solheim: Jostedalsbreen vandringar i nasjonalparken . Nord 4 forlag, 1999, ISBN 82-7326-036-4 .
Oddgeir Bruaset: Jostedalsbreen . Samlaget, 1996, ISBN 82-521-4627-9 .
Bjørn Wold, Leif Ryvarden : Jostedalsbreen: Norges største isbre . Boksenteret forlag, 1996, ISBN 82-7683-090-0 . Also engelsk and tysk utgave
Jostedalsbreen and bygda den fikk navn etter . Grøndahl forlag, 1989, ISBN 82-504-1711-9 .
Den Norske turistforenings årbok 1936. Hovedemne: Jostedalsbreen og fjordane

[1] Ludwig Hevesi: MacEcks strange travel between Constantin Opel and San Francisco. Stuttgart 1901, pp. 328-342.