GRID-Arendal : State of the Environment Norway - Biodiversity

Saltfjellet/Svartisen - From Fertile Mountain Valleys to Perennial Ice


Photos: Per Roger Lauritzen, DNT / Per T. Terjesen

The national park and four adjoining protected areas stretch from the fjord landscape at Melfjorden in the west across Svartisen, extending to the mountain areas along the Swedish border. Svartisen is the largest glacier glacier in northern Scandinavia (370 quare kilometers). Glomdalen offers polished marble, caves and underground rivers. Stormdalen's mountain-birch forest has an unusually high plant production. Calcareous areas are oases for demanding flowering plants, and the area has large mountain avens heaths interspersed with such exclusive species as the Lapland rose.

Area : 1840 km2
Protected: 1989

Source: DN: Directorate for nature management.
Map : SKMe: Norwegian Mapping Authority - Environmental Unit.

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