Fjords explained: how ice carved western Norway
A short, friendly introduction to what a fjord is and how it formed.
A fjord is a long, narrow inlet of the sea with steep sides, carved by glaciers during repeated ice ages and later flooded by the sea as the ice retreated.
Western Norway has some of the world’s best-known examples. Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord are together listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.
Seeing a fjord from the water, from a viewpoint and from a farm on its slopes gives three very different impressions of the same landscape.