HARDANGERFJORDEN

With a length of 179 km is the Hardangerfjord the third largest fjord in the world and the second largest in Norway. The longest branch of the Hardangerfjord is Sørfjorden which cuts south about 50 km from the main fjord. Its maximum depth is more than 800 m just outside Norheimsund in the middle of the fjord.

On the Folgefonn peninsula which belongs to the Hardangerfjord, the third largest glacier in Norway is found. With its three parts, the Folgefonn glacier covers an area of 220 km2 (85 sq mi), and is an area which in 2005 became protected as a national park.

Today the Hardangerfjord is witness to a renaissance in tourism and new infrastructure for travellers has once again become an industry for the local communities along the fjord.

The fjord has good conditions for fish farming. Fish farms yearly produce more than 60.000 tons of salmon and rainbow trout  and makes the Hardangerfjord one of four major fish farming regions in the world.

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