Vemork
in Tinn of Telemark, Norway
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Notodden Airport (33 mi) - Geilo Airport Dagali (38 mi)
- Skien Airport (60 mi)
- Gol Airport (67 mi)
- Sandefjord Airport, Torp (78 mi)
- Leirin Airport (84 mi)
- Sogndal Airport (100 mi)
- Kristiansand Airport (116 mi)
- Urnes Stave Church (Unesco heritage, 106 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 59.867 and 8.483 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 59° 52' 0" and E 8° 28' 59"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Krone - NOK
- Spoken languages:
- Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Northern Sami, Finnish
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 04:51 AM (Wednesday)
- Timezone: Europe/Oslo
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:21 am and 9:24 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga - References
- This place on Wikipedia
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 2,8 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to Norway.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Norway. Last Update: 2024-04-30 08:30:35
Explore Vemork
Vemork in Tinn (Telemark) is a city in Norway about 78 mi (or 126 km) west of Oslo, the country's capital.
Local time in Vemork is now 04:51 AM (Wednesday). The local timezone is named Europe / Oslo with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 8 airports in the vicinity of Vemork. The closest airport in Norway is Notodden Airport in a distance of 33 mi (or 53 km), South-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There is one Unesco world heritage site nearby. It's Urnes Stave Church in a distance of 106 mi (or 171 km), North.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Rjukan, Seljord, Kviteseid, Sauland and Amot. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 7°C / 45 °F
| Morning Temperature | 5°C / 40 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
| Night Temperature | 6°C / 43 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 100% |
| Air Pressure | 1027 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (3 mph) from South |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Thursday, 2nd of May 2024
13°C (56 °F)
8°C (47 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Friday, 3rd of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Saturday, 4th of May 2024
19°C (66 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Few clouds, gentle breeze.
Videos from this area
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Rjukan Sun Mirrors / Heliostats / Rjukan Solspeilet Sun Mirror / Rjukan Sonnen-Spiegel
Rjukan, (pop. 3500) is installing giant heliostats to redirect natural sunlight onto the town square during the six months the population lives in in near perpetual darkness. The industrial...
Krossobanen Rjukan: Krosso - Gvepseborg t/r
Krosso - Gvepseborg tur / retur 15.08.2012.
Я прыгнул в бездну! (Bungee Jumping in Telemark, Tinn, Rjukan)
Bungee Jump, Rjukan, Norway.
Rjukan Krossobanen
http://krossobanen.no/index_uk.htm More of my photos from Rjukan is are here: http://rjukan.gu.ma/
Bungee Jumping Rjukan Norway 2010
Norway's toughest bungee jump, 90meters.
Krossobanen Rjukan: Gvepseborg Cafe & Restaurant
That's what the new Café looks like, when you take the Krossobanen Cablecar to Gvepseborg.
Bungee Jump @ Rjukan - Norway - Bridge + Chest Cam (upwards)
We planned our most extreme event for the end of the road-trip, Norways thoughest bungee jump! I wanted to take a huge jump, but got pushed while preparing, resulting in a strange jump with...
Strikkhopp Rjukan
Et lite strikkhopp.
Rjukan Synssenter Optometri
Test av sikkerhetståke på Rjukan Synssenter. Det er montert 2 stk PROTECT tåkemaskiner som dekker butikken på få sekunder facebook side: https://www.facebook.com/Protectnorge.
Strikkhopping i Rjukan
Jeg tok to strikkhopp i Rjukan i sommer 2002. Den første var "mislykket" og den andre ble nydelig!! (Ikke spør meg hvem som filmet meg, noe mange andre spurte om dette!!!!)
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Operation Freshman
Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne operation conducted using gliders, and its target was the Vemork Norsk Hydro chemical plant in Telemark county, Norway which produced heavy water for Nazi Germany.
Vemork
Vemork is the name of a hydroelectric power plant outside Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. The plant was built by Norsk Hydro and opened in 1911, its main purpose being to fix nitrogen for the production of fertilizer. Vemork was later the site of the first plant in the world to mass-produce heavy water developing from the hydrogen production then used for the Haber process. During World War II, Vemork was the target of Norwegian heavy water sabotage operations.
Rjukanfossen
Rjukanfossen is a waterfall of 104 meters in the western part of the Westfjord valley in Tinn, a municipality in the county of Telemark, Norway, west of the industrial town Rjukan. The waterfall is a part of the Måne river, earlier a major tourist attraction, being one of the first floodlighted waterfalls by electricity produced by the same waterfall. In 1905 Rjukanfossen was built out to produce hydro electrical power for the saltpetre production when Norsk Hydro was established.
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum is an industrial museum located at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. Located in the Vemork power station, it was established in 1988 to allow the preservation of industrial society created by Norsk Hydro when they established themselves in Rjukan in 1907.
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