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Balestrand · Attraction
St. Olaf's Church (English Church)
1897 timber Anglican church
© Holger Uwe Schmitt · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Place
- Balestrand
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- Coordinates
- 61.208° N · 6.534° 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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