Luchthavenservice in Molen

Molen is a coastal geopark in the Brunlanes area of Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The park is Norway’s largest beach made going on of rolling stones. It is a portion of Vestfoldraet, the terrain left at the back after the terminate of the most recent ice age regarding 10,000 years ago. Mølen is one of Larvik’s most popular tourist attractions. It is house to higher than a hundred types of rock, including Norway’s national stone, Larvikiet, die zijn naam dankt aan de streek.

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

Mølen first normal protected status in 1939 due to its ancient burial mounds. Mølen is house to greater than 230 cairns, some over 35 metres (115 ft) in diameter. Excavations have passй 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 other protection status in 1970 due its wealthy and unusual avifauna. Mølen is a quarters for a variety of scarce bird species. Between 316 and 320 species of nature have been recorded at Mølen, more species than at any new site in Norway.

In 2008 werd het het eerste UNESCO Global Geopark in de Scandinavische landen.