Geirangerfjord
Abandoned ledge farms above a UNESCO fjord
Photograph by Andreas Trepte on Wikimedia Commons
About Geirangerfjord
Fifteen kilometres of fjord branching off the Sunnylvsfjorden, walled by some of the steepest mountains on the west coast and with almost no shore to live on. Farms were built here anyway, high on the ledges, Skageflå, Knivsflå and Blomberg among them, now abandoned and partly restored, one reachable on foot from Geiranger and the rest only by boat. The Seven Sisters falls on one side and the Suitor faces them across the water, still courting. UNESCO listed the fjord with Nærøyfjord in 2005, and from 2026 the ships working it must run on zero emissions.
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Within 60 km as the crow flies, in any country.

