Langesundsfjord (), also known as the Breviksfjord (), is a stretch of fjord in Telemark county, Norway. The long fjord flows from the Skagerrak, between the islands of Sandøya, Bjørkøya, and Siktesøya in Porsgrunn Municipality and the mainland of Bamble Municipality.
Location
The fjord stretches from the Langesund
strait near the town of Brevik, where it separates into the
Frierfjord and the
Eidangerfjord. In the
medieval, the fjord was named
Grenmar, after the
grener people who lived here and
mar which was
Old Norse for sea. Later, well into the 1700s, the entire stretch from Langesund gap and up to
Skien was referred to as Langesundsfjord.
The Brevik Bridge is a bridge over the mouth of the Frierfjord that connects the municipalities of Bamble and Porsgrunn. On the west side of Bamble lies the town of Stathelle. On the east side lies the town of Brevik in Porsgrunn. The Brevik tunnel ( Brevikstunnelen) on Highway 354 (old E18) goes through the hill in Brevik and connects the Brevik bridge with the rest of the way north.
Geology
The Langesundsfjord is especially noted for the discovery of
fluorescent minerals. Many of the minerals found here are relatively rare. Commercial quarrying for decorative stone started in the late 1880s.
In 1881,
Diderik Cappelen (1856-1935), first found
Cappelenite in Langesundsfjorden. Cappelenite, which he discovered in small veins within Nepheline syenite
pegmatite, is a rare
yttrium-
barium borosilicate. It is found in the form of greenish-brown hexagonal crystals.
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See also
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