Kjørnesneset

You are now standing at Kjørnesneset, the tip of the headland that sticks out into the fjord. At 220 kilometres long, it is not only the world’s second longest fjord, but also the deepest with a depth of 1400 metres in places. During the 1970’s, the world’s press streamed into Sogn. The reason being that a foreign submarine had been observed in the Sognfjord. The police and the armed forces had received several reports from people believing that they had seen a submarine in the area. One of the most reliable sightings was in the Sogndalsfjorden. Subsequently, 4 frigats, 2 submarines, 10 motorised torpedo boats and 3 helicopters arrived in Sognefjorden to participate in the search. The search continued for 16 days and the hotels were full of journalists from around the world. This happened whilst the cold war was at its coldest, and if the Norwegian Navy vessels had managed to force a submarine from the Eastern Block to the surface, it would have been an extremely dramatic event. A helicopter with sonar, flew right in front of where you are now standing searching for the submarine. Officially, the search results were not given, but the documents stating that there was a submarine in the Sognefjorden were downgraded. The owner of the farm here would rather tell the journalists a story about a bear, so he probably didn’t beleive in the submarine either.