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Rondane is one of the few places in Scandinavia and Europe where wild reindeer ( as opposed to the domestic breed ) are found.
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Rondane and is
* 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.
It is estimated that approximately 2000 to 4000 reindeer live in Rondane and the nearby Dovre area.
In Rondane, there is a central cabin by the southern end of the lake Rondvatnet, Rondvassbu.
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.
Rondane and one
With this scene, Ibsen wrote Rondane into one of the 19th centuries better-known plays and made Rondane a symbol for Norway.
Rondane and few
Rondane contains a few small canyons which were created by the rapid ice melting, most prominently Jutulhogget and Vesle-Ula.
Rondane and Scandinavia
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.
Rondane and where
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 and wild
Like Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella and Rondane, Dovre national park hosts wild Fennoscandian reindeer of Beringia origin.
Together with Rondane, it has Norway and Europe's last stock of wild reindeer of Beringian origin.
Together with the reindeer in Rondane National Park the last remaining population of wild Fennoscandian reindeer of Beringia origin ( other wild Norwegian reindeer are of European origin and have interbred with domesticated reindeer to a various extent ), wolverine, and various large birds as golden eagle and gyrfalcon can be seen, and also the recently ( 1930s ) imported ( and potentially dangerous ) musk oxen.
Rondane and reindeer
The Directorate for Nature Management regards Rondane as " especially important as a life supporting area for the native reindeer ".
Rondane and are
Rondane lies just to the east of Gudbrandsdal and two other mountain areas, Dovre and Jotunheimen are nearby.
Visitors to Rondane are free to hike and camp in all areas of the park, except in the immediate vicinity of cabins.
* 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.
The eastern rivers, Jora, Ula, Frya, Tromsa and Mesna are shorter and drop precipitously from the heights of the Rondane.
The Rondane mountains, Gudbrandsdal valley, and Ringebu are nearby.
Rondane and found
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.
Rondane and .
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.
The peaks of Rondane, seen from the south.
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.
Norman Heitkøtter was president of the commission, and made it possible by Royal resolution to establish Rondane National Park.
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