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Kongebjørka

Løken · CC BY-SA 3.0

39% trees around it and 386 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildFungi

  • trees within 3 km39%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded386
  • Altitude75 m

The forest around

39% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 66%Grassland 8%Water 13%Built-up 13%Trees 36%Grassland 19%Water 40%Built-up 5%Trees 33%Grassland 20%Water 46%Built-up 2%Trees 28%Grassland 11%Water 60%Built-up 1%39%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km66%
  • 1–3 km36%
  • 3–6 km33%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees36%
  • Grassland19%
  • Water40%
  • Built-up5%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

386 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus67 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana34 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris34 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia33 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Japanese Knotweed
Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica31 recordsW.carter · CC0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus29 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum20 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant20 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior18 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Brown Birch
Brown BirchBetula pubescens18 recordsDirk Ingo Franke · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eurasian Aspen
Eurasian AspenPopulus tremula16 recordsØyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa14 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 386Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 75 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan0°-4°185 mm
  2. Feb0°-4°156 mm
  3. Mar2°-3°148 mm
  4. Apr7°0°113 mm
  5. May11°4°115 mm
  6. Jun14°8°135 mm
  7. Jul17°10°145 mm
  8. Aug17°10°162 mm
  9. Sep13°7°190 mm
  10. Oct7°3°153 mm
  11. Nov3°-1°177 mm
  12. Dec1°-3°202 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kongebjørka.

Monumental tree in Molde, Norway

Kongebjørka is a notable tree in Norway.

Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

386 species have been recorded around it: 235 plants, 54 fungi, 94 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sycamore, Cobnut and Scots Pine.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Kongebjørka 2018
Løken · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Kongebjørka seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmGrønne Korridor
  • 31picnic sites within 4 km
  • 21shelters and huts within 6 kmHundtjønna, Midtveishuken and 19 more
  • 7viewpoints within 5 kmSkihytta, Utsikten, Brattlihaugen and 4 more
  • 207car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmKviltorp Camping, Bjølstad Camping and 2 more
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmMoldefjord Hostel, Scandic Seilet, Molde Fjordhotell and 3 more
  • 21restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Kongebjørka.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1,402 mountains within 25 km
Kvannfjellet980 m · 16 kmTalstadhesten913 m · 17 kmMaifjellet808 m · 19 kmBrustind840 m · 22 kmBlåtind1,080 m · 23 kmTrollstolen1,141 m · 23 kmBlåstolen1,111 m · 24 kmFrostadtinden807 m · 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Åndalsvatnet0.2 km² · 5.3 kmSkjellbreia0.7 km² · 14 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Storfossen7.8 kmLitlefossen8.0 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Kongebjørka

Norway

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 386Species

Scandinavian coastal conifer forests

Norway · 258 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 76%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 523Species

See the guide

University Museum of Bergen

Norway · 278 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 800Species

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Krokskogen

Norway · 343 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 650Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q788422) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,822 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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