Long coastline
As the crow flows the
distance between east and west in Vest- Agder is
not very long. However, if you follow the
coastline from Åna Sira, next to Rogaland
county, to Kvåsfjorden, which marks the border
to Aust-Agder, the distance is 709 kilometers.
The distance is almost as long as a trip along
the highway from Kristiansand to Trondheim. The
coast characterizes Vest- Agder. A total of 31
small and large fjords intersect the coastline.
Nearly 90 percent of the populations in this
county live in the coastal municipalities. That
is where we find the towns and the outports near
the open sea, and it is easy to see that they
are based upon shipping and trade. Many of the
traditional houses in these areas have in recent
years been preserved by the authorities. That
also goes for some other characteristic
structures along the coast- the lighthouse. As
the first county in this country Vest- Agder in
1992 worked out a plan to preserve the
lighthouses and a total of eight were protected
by law.
Norway’s “Costa del
Sol”
