Nærøyfjord
Narrow, steep-walled fjord between towering mountains, on a classic scenic ferry route.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Nærøyfjord, a day trip from Bergen, is a geology story told from the deck of a boat. It links the pale gravel of Gudvangen, the village at the fjord's head, to two Apollo fifteen astronauts on the Moon in nineteen seventy-one. Along the way it touches on the mine in the Nærøy valley and the unlikely places its white stone ends up.
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