Taxi in Molen

Molen is a coastal geopark in the Brunlanes Place of Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The park is Norway’s largest beach made going on of rolling stones. It is a part of Vestfoldraet, the terrain left in back after the decrease of the most recent ice age in financial credit to 10,000 years ago. Mølen is one of Larvik’s most popular tourist attractions. It is house to greater than a hundred types of rock, including Norway’s national stone, Larvikit, das nach dieser Gegend benannt ist.

The wind and sea have lashed the landscape of Mølen for thousands of years, and the place takes its declare from the Old Norse word “mol”, meaning a stone mound or bank of stones.

Mølen first usual protected status in 1939 due to its ancient burial mounds. Mølen is house to exceeding 230 cairns, some greater than 35 metres (115 ft) in diameter. Excavations have out of date the cairns to the Bronze Age 900-600 BCE. The cairns have been purchased and acquired by the University Museum of National Antiquities.

Mølen traditional a supplementary protection status in 1970 due its wealthy and peculiar avifauna. Mølen is a address for a variety of scarce bird species. Between 316 and 320 species of birds have been recorded at Mølen, more species than at any supplementary site in Norway.

2008 wurde er zum ersten UNESCO Global Geopark in den nordischen Ländern.