The northern part of Langøya is an attractive recreation area for families with children. Gently sloping sandy beach. Interesting fauna. Great opportunities for fishing. Excellent footpaths. Only accessible by boat.
In the summer Langøya Restaurant is open, this restaurant is worht a visit.
Bamble's Landscape - Exciting Geology Through Millions of Years
Tollpakkboden is a log-built warehouse, the main part of which dates from the early 1700s.
The old guardhouse is now a customs museum, with artefacts found there from long ago.
Langesund customs warehouse as it stands today was erected in 1869.
The rocks in Steinvika were created in the earth's antiquity, for approx. 461-451 million…
The history of Langøytangen lighthouse station dates back to 1828.
Tangen Fort, located at the far end of Langesundstangen, is a popular hiking area just…
Bamble is dominated by two types of landscape with completely different geological…
Great hiking area near Rognstranda in Bamble. Beautiful forests and flora.
The landscape with the escarpments, "flauane" in Norwegian, is characteristic of the…
The Olav church ruin (Skeidi church) are the ruins of a stone church built before 1150 in…
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As the first geopark in Scandinavia, Gea Norvegica became member of the Global Geoparks…
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