Geirangerfjord
Water
A narrow arm of the sea between walls of rock in Norway.
The Geirangerfjord is 15 kilometres long and in places only a few hundred metres wide. On both sides the mountains rise more than a kilometre straight up from the water.
A fjord is a valley that a glacier ground out in the ice age and that later filled with sea. Old farms cling to ledges high on the cliffs here; the farmers reached them by ladder.
- long
- 15 km
- deep
- 260 m
- World Heritage since
- 2005
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One waterfall here is called the Seven Sisters: seven streams falling side by side.
- 2
Opposite it falls another, called the Suitor. The story goes that he courted the sisters in vain.
- 3
Large cruise ships sail all the way in to the village at the end.
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