25/11/2025
The member of the PRO-Coast and responsible for the analysis and description of the 10 aquatic eco-systems of the project, the Greek is explaining the Norwegian Case Study with some awesome pictures and a small story to empower the overall case study:
🌊 There’s a story behind every name, and a memory beneath every wave
🇬🇧 The area of Melkeviken (Mjølkevika) -or “The Bay of Milk”- was once, many years ago, the place where cows were gathered for milking, giving the area its name. Here ran the old boundary between inland and coastal lands - a line still visible in the traces of the stone fence, some remains of which survive to this day.
By the late 18th century, a small homestead had been established here, first mentioned in 1790 with Elling Olsen Ulland as the tenant - likely the man who first cleared the land beneath the cliff, close to the sea. The houses were abandoned in the 1860s, yet their ruins still stand in silence, witnesses of a time when life and nature coexisted simply and harmoniously.
Today, the name Melkeviken (Mjølkevika) carries with it that same sense of continuity - a gentle example of coexistence between people and nature; a clear, accessible bay where history meets sustainability. From the soil and the milk of yesterday, to the sea and the clarity of today - a bay that reminds us that every drop of water holds stories of people, landscapes, and memory. Once, the milk of the farming communities flowed here; now, the sea flows in its place - pure and serene, reminding us that tradition and nature remain inseparably bound.
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