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View on Geilo
Geilo is a village in Hol Kommune, Hol community. It is a tourist attraction because of its ski resorts. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Geilo is a village in Hol Kommune, Hol community. It is a tourist attraction because of its ski resorts
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Geilo
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Geilo.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Geilo is a centre in the municipality of Hol in Buskerud county, Norway.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
The name is the dative plural of geil f 'fenced road for cattle'.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Geilo
Geilo train station (Geilo stasjon) with roughly five trains a day connects to either Bergen (to the west) or Oslo (to the east).
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Cross-country slope on Geilotoppen - panoramio
Cross-country slope on Geilotoppen. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Cross-country slope on Geilotoppen
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
Geilo has numerous small ski centres that make up one resort, which goes by the name Geilo Skiheiser.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Geilo is recorded at 60.534° N, 8.197° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 1,178 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Open ledger · AOD.EU.GEILO.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.EU.GEILO.V00
Ledger AOD.EU.GEILO.V00
View on Geilo
Geilo is a village in Hol Kommune, Hol community. It is a tourist attraction because of its ski resorts. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Geilo is a village in Hol Kommune, Hol community. It is a tourist attraction because of its ski resorts
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Geilo now
Geilolia skisenter (formerly Vestlia skisenter) tends to have the easier green and blue runs and is where the major ski school that operates in Geilo takes place, whereas Slaatta skisenter has the blue and red runs.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
View on Geilo
AOD.EU.GEILO.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cross-country slope on Geilotoppen - panoramio
AOD.EU.GEILO.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Geilo overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.