Mo I Ranna Info.
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Rana muncipality has approximately 25.350 inhabitants and covers a area of 4.463 km2. The town under the Arctic Circle, Mo i Rana, the gateway to the Arctic-Circle region. We’re all glad to see you here, you’ll find the the people very hospitable throughout our area. You’ll also find a nature that’s unique and can’t be found anywhere else. Since it would take you a lifetime to explore all our attractions, cultural and nature based, we are here to point out a few of the highlights for you. If you arrived by rail or car from south you have just passed through Hemnes, the first you’d see of our little town is the fjord opening wide, surrounded by snow capped mountains.
To the north is Svartisen (a part of Saltfjellet - Svartisen national park), Saltfjellet and Polarsirkelen, in the south Okstindene. Mo i Rana, the town that grew up around Norsk Jernverk (Norwegian Ironworks). Today, commerce is more varied, but much of the new activity has its roots in the original industrial environment. Abundant power supplies combined with human ability and go-ahead spirit have created wealth. Salten Verk with its ferrosilicon production and the cement works at Kjøpsvik emphasise this assertion.
The main attractions are where the Arctic Circle crosses the large glacier, Svartisen, and is also marked for Hurtigruta passengers to see, Stenneset Bygdetun Museum, Grønligrotta the only illuminated tourist cave in Scandinavia. Guided tours of the labyrinth, Polarsirkelsenteret (Adventure centre) these attractions have provided the basis of an extensive effort to build up a thriving tourist industry. |
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THE ARCTIC CIRCLE CENTRE
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The Arctic Circle Centre is on highway E6 up in Saltfjellet. This is the obvious place for any traveller to stop. The Arctic Circle Centre's striking architecture is adapted to its natural surroundings, and the Arctic Circle itself runs right through the building. The Arctic Circle Centre is open during the season from May 1 to September 15. In the area, there are Russian and Yugoslavian W Il memorials. The Arctic Circle Centre is situated in a national park in wonderful hiking territory. |
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SVARETISEN GLACIER
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SVARETISEN GLACIER
Svartisen is Norway's second largest glacier, 370 km2, 32 km north of Mo i Rana. Drive E6 north to Røssvoll, follow the signs to the Svartisvannet parking lot. (Kiosk, cabinrental from kiosk and place to camp.) Boat over Svartisvannet takes 20 minutes, then a 3 km walk up the Austerdalsisen. Heavy duty footwear is recommended. |
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HAVMANNEN
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HAVMANNEN
Havmannen is located in the water of the Ranafjord about 15 metres from the water's edge. The surface of the water rises and falls with the tide. The sculpture's position is also defined by its relationship with the town's structure. The sculpture stands with its back turned towards the town, and looks out over the fjord, in the direction of the open sea. It seems to be concentrating on its own thoughts, turning inwards to its inner space, both as a physical and as a mental state. Despite its scale, this sculpture is no monument. Its rhetoric is directed at each one of us individually, and this discussion is private. It belongs to the experiences that we cannot share with others. We base our sense of having something in common on the belief that we share these existential experiences with each other.
If we take a step further away and look at the sculpture in its setting, in the landscape formed by the town and its buildings, the fjord with its water and the fells with their intricate stone formations, we can experience the sculpture losing its materially heavy presence and being transformed into a black outline, almost a hole or a negative form sculpted in the air. |
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Norway´s National Parks
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Norway´s National Parks are regulated by the laws of nature. Nature decides both how and when to do things. National Parks are established in order to protect large natural areas - from the coast to the mountains. This is done for our sake, for generations to come and for the benefit of nature itself.
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Saltfjellet-Svartisen
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The most famous Glaciers in the Arctic Circle is Okstindan and Svartisen. In winter it can fall more than 10 meters of snow in the Arctic Circle area of Norway. You can take part in snow- and glacier activities all year around, and we have several wintersport arenas of top class. Mo i Rana has fostered both World Champions and Olympic Champions through the years.
The Svartisen glacier is the second largest glacier in Norway. The Svartisen glacier is a park of Saltfjellet / Svartisen national park, wich is Norway´s most various national park. The Svartisen glacier is 375 square kilometer, an thereby covers quite a bit of land. The glacier stretches all the way from the widths in Saltfjellet mountain area, through beautifull valleys with calm rivers, and out to fjords and steep mountains at the coast.
The Svartisen glacier is divided in to two separate glaciers:
The West Ice and The East Ice. The Western valley, that separates the two glaciers, became free of ice just a short while ago. the glacier landscape consists of river plains with sand and clay remains that´s under continous change by the glacier rivers. In some glacier lakes you can be witness to the glaciers calve in to the lake. |
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Svartisen Glacier
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Svartisen Glacier is the great tourist attraction of Saltfjellet National Park is the Svartisen (Black Ice) glacier, the largest icefield in northern Scandinavia, extending westwards to the coastal fjords. For the most part the plateau lies between 1,200 metres, 900 ft and 1.400 metres, 600 ft, with individual peaks rising above this, including Snetind (1.599 metres, 246 ft), Sniptind (1.591 metres, 220 ft) and Istind (1.577 metres, 174 ft). The best access from the south is by way of Mo i Rana and from there northwest to Svartishytta or Melfjorden. Both roads end at the foot of an offshoot of the Svartisen glacier. |
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WALKING
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Glacier walking on Okstindan or Svartisen with glacier arms that calves in glacier lakes give you a mighty impression. In the peak season you can reach the Svartisen glacier from the Svartisen valley by boat and a three km hike, through the Glom valley in between the two main glaciers, or from Melfjorden in the magnificent and breathtaking Nordfjorden.
Glacier walking is an incredible experience, but it also demands alertness, knowledge and equipment. Glaciers are constantly moving. Deep crevasses and gorges can reveal ancient secrets, but they are also dangerous. Guarantee your safety by using authorised instructors, and never venture out onto or near a glacier on your own. |
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Okstindan
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Okstindan, also said to be the roof of Northern Norway. The Okstindan massive can give you many and exciting adventure in a mountain range filled with contrasts. The scenery changes from sharp peaks, to glacier arms and calm valleys. The weather can change extremely fast in these areas. But no matter what the weather is like, you can enjoy a beautiful and majestic, and sometimes difficult to access, mountain scenery. Here you can climb Northern Norway´s highest mountain, Oksskolten (the Oxe´s head), 1.916 metres above sea level, play in the ice cracks or hike pleasantly through the Speltfjell valley towards the Gressvatn cabin.
Why does this area excite so much? Well, an altitude similar to other alpine areas in Norway. The peaks reaches up to about 1.900 meters above sea level from the bottom of the valleys below at 400 - 700 meters above sea level. There is no mountains in the area that can measure with this for miles and miles. With the peaks surrounding the glacier plateau, you feel like you´re really on the top of the world. The area invites you to combine airy hikes with climbing in blue ice. |
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