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Finse is an area in the Ulvik
Ulvik

Ulvik is a municipalities of Norway in Hordaland Counties of Norway, Norway. The municipality stretches from the Hardangerfjord to 1,800 metres above sea level, and borders the municipalities of Granvin, Eidfjord, Ullensvang, Voss, Aurland, and Hol....
 municipality of Hordaland
Hordaland

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo by population....
. The railway station at Finse on the Bergensbanen
Bergensbanen

The Bergen Line , also called the Bergen Railway, is a standard gauge railway line between Bergen and H?nefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, where the passenger trains go, a distance of ....
 at 1,222m is the highest station on the entire Norwegian railway system. Since there are no roads to Finse, the railway provides the sole means of transportation to and from Finse. During summer, however, it is possible to walk or cycle to Finse. Across the railway line from the station is housed the railway navvy
Navvy

Navvy is a shorter form of navigational engineer or navigator and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects....
 museum, which has exhibits on the construction of the railway line and two decommissioned snow-clearing engines which you are free to explore.






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Finse is an area in the Ulvik
Ulvik

Ulvik is a municipalities of Norway in Hordaland Counties of Norway, Norway. The municipality stretches from the Hardangerfjord to 1,800 metres above sea level, and borders the municipalities of Granvin, Eidfjord, Ullensvang, Voss, Aurland, and Hol....
 municipality of Hordaland
Hordaland

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo by population....
. The railway station at Finse on the Bergensbanen
Bergensbanen

The Bergen Line , also called the Bergen Railway, is a standard gauge railway line between Bergen and H?nefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, where the passenger trains go, a distance of ....
 at 1,222m is the highest station on the entire Norwegian railway system. Since there are no roads to Finse, the railway provides the sole means of transportation to and from Finse. During summer, however, it is possible to walk or cycle to Finse. Across the railway line from the station is housed the railway navvy
Navvy

Navvy is a shorter form of navigational engineer or navigator and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects....
 museum, which has exhibits on the construction of the railway line and two decommissioned snow-clearing engines which you are free to explore. The area also has a hotel (Finse 1222), a hostel (Finsehytta, DNT
Norwegian Mountain Touring Association

The Norwegian Trekking Association is a Norwegian association which maintains mountain trails and cabins in Norway. The association was founded on 21 January 1868 with the scope "to help and develop tourism in this country"....
) and a number of private cabins.During the winter, Finse is popular for cross-country skiing, sail skiing (due to its location on the edge of a frozen lake), expedition training and Red Cross training. The ill-fated Scott expedition
Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott who had previously commanded the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901–04....
 to the South Pole trained here, and outside the hotel there is a monument to those that died. There is one small drag-lift which allows you to downhill ski on one slope back into town.

During the summer the focus switches to mountain cycling, walking and glacier walking on the adjacent 'blue ice' Hardangerjøkulen
Hardangerjøkulen

Hardangerj?kulen is the sixth largest glacier in mainland Norway, and is located in Eidfjord and Ulvik municipalities.Hardangerj?kulen's highest point is 1,863 m above sea level, and is the highest point in Hordaland....
 glacier. The Rallarvegen
Rallarvegen

Rallarvegen is the name of a construction road in Norway,built in connection with the construction of theBergensbanen and Fl?msbanen raillines....
 is a popular bicycle route, from Haugastøl
Haugastøl

Haugast?l is a station on the railway line Bergensbanen in Norway. The station is located in the Hol municipality situated between the stations Ustaoset to the east and Finse to the west....
 and Flåm
Flåm

Fl?m is a Norway village with some 500 inhabitants, at the inner end of the Aurlandsfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord. The town is located in the municipality of Aurland, in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway....
.

In March 1979 Finse was the place in which George Lucas
George Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
 chose to shoot the ice planet Hoth
Hoth

In the fictional universe of Star Wars, Hoth is the sixth planet of a remote star system of the same name. It is a world covered in snow and ice, with numerous natural satellites, and pelted by meteorites from a nearby asteroid belt....
 in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, because its chilling landscape matched the fiction.

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