Osterfjorden
Steep-sided fjord winding to a narrow tidal strait, with waterfalls, sea eagles and deep water.
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This guide to Osterfjorden, the long fjord north-east of Bergen, is about the narrow strait at Mostraumen and the water that lies behind it. It reaches back to the end of the last ice age, when rising land and a ridge of glacial gravel reshaped this corner of the coast, and to a December night in seventeen forty-three. Listen from the open deck as the boat approaches the narrows, where waterfalls streak the cliffs and sea eagles sometimes ride the ridges.
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