Vettisfossen
Vettisfossen is one of Norway's tallest waterfalls, and the 284th tallest in the world. It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the Utladalen Landscape Protection Area in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Per Olav Bøyum, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Årdal, Norway
- Also known as: “Mørkfos”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hurrungane.
Hurrungane
Locality
Photo: Arnemg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hurrungane is a mountain range in Luster Municipality and Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The area is southwest in the larger mountain range Jotunheimen and is also part of Jotunheimen National Park. Hurrungane is situated 10 km north of Vettisfossen.
Vettisfossen
- Category: body of water
- Location: Årdal, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.37983° or 61° 22′ 47″ northLongitude
7.94587° or 7° 56′ 45″ eastElevation
680 metres (2,231 feet)Open location code
9FH99WHW+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 766771406OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Urdu—“Vettisfossen” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Ветисфосен”
- Catalan: “Vettisfossen”
- Cebuano: “Vettisfossen”
- Danish: “Vettisfossen”
- Dutch: “Vettisfossen”
- French: “Vettisfossen”
- German: “Vettisfossen”
- Hungarian: “Vettisfossen-vízesés”
- Italian: “Vettisfossen”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار وتیسفوسن”
- Mazanderani: “وتیسفوسن ئوشار”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vettisfossen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vettisfossen”
- Norwegian: “Vettisfossen”
- Persian: “آبشار وتیسفوسن”
- Persian: “ابشار وتیسفوسن”
- Polish: “Vettisfossen”
- Portuguese: “Vettisfossen”
- Russian: “Веттисфосс”
- Russian: “Веттисфоссен”
- Swedish: “Vettisfossen”
- Tajik: “Веттисфоссен”
- Tajik: “Обшори Веттисфоссен”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Веттисфоссен”
- Urdu: “ویٹس فوسن آبشار”
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Highlights include Høljafossen and Ulsnanosi.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vettisfossen”. Photo: Per Olav Bøyum, CC BY 2.0.