Aurlandsfjord · Place
Undredal
A tiny goat-farming hamlet with 80 residents, 500 goats, and Norway's smallest stave church still in use.
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- Fjord arm
- Aurlandsfjord
- Best time
- June–August for full cheese-farm access.
- Getting there
- By road from Flåm (15 min) or via ferry.
- Coordinates
- 60.95° N · 7.10° E
Honest facts about this fjordcanonical · verbatim
- Sognefjord is Norway's longest (205 km) and deepest (1 308 m) fjord — the world's second-longest (after Scoresby Sund, Greenland ~350 km). Not the world's deepest or longest. 'King of the Fjords' is the accepted epithet.
- UNESCO in this region = Nærøyfjord (West Norwegian Fjords, 2005) + Urnes stave church (1979). Aurlandsfjord is NOT UNESCO-inscribed — it sits inside the zero-emission regulatory zone only.
- Zero-emission World Heritage fjords: passenger ships <10 000 GT from 1 Jan 2026; ≥10 000 GT from 2032. Not a blanket ban.
- Nigardsbreen on-ice access is guided-only.
- Undredal is Norway's smallest stave church still in use (1147). The region's two stone churches are Hove (Vik, ~1170) and Dale (Luster, ~1250).
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