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European Nature Conservation Year.
Vøringsfossen Waterfall.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 10.04.1970.
Face value: 70 Norwegian øre.
Printed by Emil Moestue trykkeri, Oslo.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 6,532,500 copies.
Size: 24 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 617.
- Michel No. 604.
- Norgeskatalogen No. 651.
- Scott No. 553.
- StampWorld No. 620.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 646.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 560.

Vøringsfossen is a 182 m (597 ft) waterfall. It lies at the top of the Måbødalen valley in the municipality of Eidfjord, in Vestland county. The name Vøringsfossen (Old Norse: Vyrðingr) is derived from the verb vyrða (‘esteem’, ‘revere’). The last element fossen, the definite form of foss (waterfall), is a later addition. The waterfall was hardly known by anyone other than locals until 1821.