Molen is a coastal geopark in the Brunlanes Place of Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The park is Norway’s largest seashore made up of rolling stones. It is a allocation of Vestfoldraet, the terrain left at the back after the decline of the most recent ice age almost 10,000 years ago. Mølen is one of Larvik’s most popular tourist attractions. It is home to exceeding 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 reveal from the Old Norse word “mol”, meaning a stone mound or bank of stones.

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

Mølen conventional a additional protection status in 1970 due its wealthy and uncommon avifauna. Mølen is a habitat for a variety of rare bird species. Between 316 and 320 species of birds have been recorded at Mølen, more species than at any additional site in Norway.

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