Vettisfossen
Sign in to saveVettisfossen is one of Norway's tallest waterfalls, and the 284th tallest in the world. It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the Utladalen Landscape Protection Area in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The waterfall has a single drop of that is nearly vertical. The waterfall is about wide and has an average flow of .
Key facts
- Waterfall.name
- Vettisfossen
- Waterfall.image
- Vettisfossen 2017.jpg
- Waterfall.caption
- View of Vettisfossen
- Waterfall.location
- Vestland, Norway
- Waterfall.number_drops
- 1
- Waterfall.watercourse
- Morkaelvi
- Waterfall.world_rank
- 284
- Waterfall.type
- Plunge
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Vettisfossen is one of Norway's tallest waterfalls, and the 284th tallest in the world. It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the Utladalen Landscape Protection Area in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The waterfall has a single drop of that is nearly vertical. The waterfall is about wide and has an average flow of .
Vettisfossen is the tallest free-falling waterfall in Europe and in Norway which consists of only one drop, that is entirely free-falling, is not regulated and flows with a considerable volume.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vettisfossen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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