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* 1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
Norway is now preparing to apply for nomination as a World Heritage Site for areas with traces and traditions of reindeer hunting in Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Reinheimen National Park and Rondane National Park in Central Sør-Norge ( Southern Norway ).
It is located between Rondane, which lies to its southeast, and Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella on its northwest.
It is the site of the Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, lies just north of Jotunheimen National Park and lies just west of Rondane National Park, so tourism and outdoor sports such as skiing are also important.
Kvam is located at the northern end of the Peer Gynt Road, which passes through high roads with excellent views of the Jotunheimen, Dovrefjell, and Rondane mountain.
Large parts of the very first national park in Norway, Rondane National Park is situated in the municipality of Sel and has its main entrances from the mountain villages of Høvringen and Mysuseter.
Rondane National Park () is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962.
Rondane is a typical high mountain area, with large plateaus and a total of ten peaks above 2, 000 m ( 6, 560 ft ).
The highest point is Rondslottet (" The Rondane Castle ") at an altitude of 2, 178 m ( 7, 146 ft ).
Following the expansion, it is now only approximately 1 kilometre from the northern border of Rondane to the southern border of Dovre National Park, and large sections of adjacent mountain areas are protected by the three parks.
There are no fossils found in Rondane today and so it is thought the sea where the rock came from contained no animal life.
Rondane is one of the few places in Scandinavia and Europe where wild reindeer ( as opposed to the domestic breed ) are found.
It is estimated that approximately 2000 to 4000 reindeer live in Rondane and the nearby Dovre area.
Probably the best-known work is Peer Gynt ( 1867 ), a play by Henrik Ibsen, which is partly set in Rondane:
A third writer who set one of his famous works in Rondane is the poet Aasmund Olavsson Vinje with his poem Ved Rundarne.
Rondane is the finite plural of the word rond.
Belgica Mountains is an isolated chain of mountains about long, standing east-southeast of the Sor Rondane Mountains in Queen Maud Land, in the Antarctic.

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Norman Heitkøtter was president of the commission, and made it possible by Royal resolution to establish Rondane National Park.
Rondane contains a few small canyons which were created by the rapid ice melting, most prominently Jutulhogget and Vesle-Ula.
* Norway: trails are maintained by organizations like Skiforeningen in the Oslomarka area and Norwegian Mountain Touring Association in mountain areas like Hardangervidda, Rondane and Jotunheimen.

Rondane and .
The mountain chain swings eastwards south of Trondheim, with ranges such as Dovrefjell and Rondane, and reaches to the border with Sweden, where they are mostly gently sloping plateaus.
Rondane National Park, which lies partially in Dovre, was the first Norwegian National Park, established on 21 December 1962.
In 2003, Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged.
The Vågå municipality lies in a mountainous region just to the north of Norway's Jotunheimen National Park, west of Rondane National Park, and south of the Dovrefjell mountains.
The district stretches from the mountains of Rondane and in the east to Jotunheimen in the west.
Smiubelgen in Rondane National Park.
* Rondane National Park, which lies partially in Nord-Fron, was the first Norwegian National Park, established on 21 December 1962.
In 2003, Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged.
Rondane National Park, which lies partially in Sør-Fron, was the first Norwegian National Park, established in 1962.
In 2003, Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged adjacent to the park.
That area comprises lowland parishes 200 m above sea-level and mountain parishes 800 m above sea-level, fertile soil in the main valley and barren summits in Rondane and Dovrefjell.
Rondane lies just to the east of Gudbrandsdal and two other mountain areas, Dovre and Jotunheimen are nearby.
Generally, Rondane does not receive enough precipitation to generate persistent glaciers, but glacier-like heaps of snow can be found in the flat back valleys.
The peaks of Rondane, seen from the south.
Large climate changes allowed reindeer to spread widely across Scandinavia, only to be forced back to a much smaller area — including the Rondane mountain area — only some hundreds of years later.
Smiubelgen, the western part of Rondane.
After nearly a decade of planning, Rondane was established as the first Norwegian National Park on 21 December 1962.
Soon after, in 1955, community meetings were held in the municipalities close to Rondane, and a commission was founded.

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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
Nevertheless, there is no bath.
It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.
`` There isn't anything left to say, is there, Keith ''??
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
The strong feeling is certainly there ; ;
but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.
The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.
And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold war against Communism.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;
Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.
Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.
Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.
However, there is always the possibility that chance will make demands the dancers find impossible to execute.

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