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	Vemork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vemork, a small community in Norway, close to the city Rjukan and within the Tinn municipality, in the county of Telemark.
		In 1906 Norsk Hydro started building a huge hydro electrical powerplant at Vemork, it was finished in 1911 and was then the largest hydro electric powerplant in the world.
		The electricity made it possible to establish a factory for producing artificial fertilizer by a new method invented by Kristian Birkeland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vemork (238 words)

	The Heroes of Telemark - Hydro
		Norwegians in London assisted in the plans to sabotage the heavy water unit at the Vemork power plant at Rjukan, and photographs and sketches of the plant were sent to London by Norwegian contacts at the facility, in particular Jomar Brun, manager of the heavy water unit.
		The Vemork action is considered one of the most heroic sabotage acts of World War II.
		To reach the Vemork plant, the group of saboteurs had to cross the river right at the bottom of the gorge, as they could not use the suspension bridge.
	www.hydro.com /en/about/history/1929_1945/1943_2.html (1423 words)

	Vemork Heavy Water Plant - 1942-44
		In 1911, the Vemork hydroelectric station in Rjukan started exploiting the tremendous power in the waters that flow from the mighty Hardangervidda down into the narrow Vestfjord valley.
		This plant in Vemork, Norway was the world's major source of heavy water in the early 1940s.
		In the 1930s, one of the few places in the world with power to spare was the Vemork plant of Norway's Norsk Hydro-Elektrisk, which had harnessed a 144-meter-high waterfall to produce fertilizers.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/ops/vemork.htm (724 words)

	The Scots at War Trust \| Vemork Raid \| Printer Friendly Version
		Deep inside the mountainous and inhospitable Telemark region in southern Norway, the Vemork Plant was heavily defended by the concrete construction and the occupying Germans, and naturally defended by the bleak surrounding countryside and steep cliffs.
		Desperate to ensure the destruction of Vemork, and with the Grouse party now isolated on the plateau, a further operation was planned, OPERATION GUNNERSIDE, using a party of six Norwegians led by Second Lieutenant Joachim Ronneberg.
		The destruction of these stocks became a top priority and it was decided to sink the Mael ferry on which the flasks of heavy water were to be carried on part of their journey back to Germany.
	www.fettes.com /scotsatwar/printerv/vemork.htm (645 words)

	Norwegian war hero visits D.C. (Norway - the official site in the United States) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1943, he was one of nine men who successfully sabotaged the Vemork heavy water manufacturing facility in Norway, delivering a serious blow to the German nuclear program.
		Vemork had always been guarded well, and the failed attempt had alerted the Germans of the allies' plans to halt production.
		Though Vemork had been successfully sabotaged and the saboteurs were home free, the Germans were still in business.
	www.norway.org /News/199803hero.htm (1522 words)

	Norwegian heavy water sabotage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions taken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the Germans from acquiring heavy water which could be used to produce nuclear weapons.
		This could have been used to do bomb research, and, ultimately, to breed plutonium from which a bomb could be constructed.
		At the time, Europe's major supply of heavy water came from the Norwegian Vemork hydroelectric plant, run by Norsk Hydro, near Rjukan in the Telemark region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage (1912 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rjukan Waterfall was the basis for building the world’s largest power station of the time at Vemork in 1911.
		The power station is now a museum where you can learn about the fantastic adventure of its founding and see exhibitions on industrial development in Norway and especially in Rjukan.
		Vemork was at the centre of one of the most important acts of sabotage during the Second World War, when Norwegian saboteurs stopped the Germans developing a nuclear bomb from the heavy water that was produced here.
	www.rjukan-turistkontor.no /uk/attraksjoner/industrimuseet.asp (185 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The allied scientists themselves were working round the clock on managing to create a nuclear physical explosion using other principles, but they still had a long way to go.
		Their task was to attack the heavy water plant at Vemork and destroy it.
		The Grouse were to act as a reception committee and prepare the landing at Skoland near Lake Møsvatn.
	www.rjukan-turistkontor.no /uk/rjukan/krigshistorie.asp (829 words)

	Operation Freshman
		The electrolytic process for the division of water to obtain hydrogen for the manufacture of ammonia at Vemork produced, simply as a by-product, small quantities of heavy water.
		After a comprehensive debriefing on the current situation at Vemork and very basic parachute training, he was dropped over the Hardanger Vidda mountains by an RAF aircraft on March 28,1942.
		One of those to remain, Knut Haukelid, teamed up with Skinnarland in a mountain hut until the spring thaw of 1943, when they moved to a farm on the lower slopes, where they were better placed to gather information to relay back to SOE headquarters in London.
	www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /freshman.htm (1879 words)

	Rjukan Ice Climbing Page
		For routes on the south side of the valley it is possible to walk from Vemork or Rjukan.
		From the 2005/06 season, two newly refurbished appartments in the village of Våer overlooking Vemork are available for rent.
		If it is overcrowded by Vemork or in the area near Krokan Fjellstue then you should consider some of the fantastic alternatives.
	www.mountain-environment.com /rjukanguide.html (3061 words)

	NOVA \| Hitler's Sunken Secret \| See the Spy Messages (non-Flash) \| PBS
		Skinnarland's boss in London was Leif Tronstad, chief of intelligence, espionage, and sabotage for the Norwegian Resistance effort and, as it happens, codesigner of the original high-concentration plant at Vemork.
		Nielsen believes the amount of useful heavy water the Germans would be able to secure from the Norwegian stocks is not worth the inevitable reprisals on locals.
		Beyond assurances from Norwegians who swore they saw the loading of heavy water into barrels at the plant, confirmation was impossible, however, as the barrels now lay at the bottom of Lake Tinn.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/hydro/mess-nf.html (506 words)

	News and latest developments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The objective map Vemork approach has reached version 0.2, and is ready for BETA testing.
		A death match version of the Vemork factory (small) map has been added to the Maps page.
		The pictures I previously stated was of the Vemork heavy water factory was actually the Vemork power plant.
	www.planetmedalofhonor.com /rjukanproject/news.html (1035 words)

	NorwayOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1911, the Vemork hydroelectric power station started exploiting the tremendous power in the waters that flow from the mighty Hardangervidda down into the narrow Vestfjord valley.
		Later it became the center of attention for other reasons; one of the most famous sabotage actions during World War II occurred at Vemork.
		Machine Hall: In 1911 Vemork powerplant was the largest powerplant in the world.
	www.norwayonline.no /?company=451&cat=82 (403 words)

	News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The SOE were called upon to destroy the heavy water plant at Vemork, near Rjukan in the region of Telemark, the largest Electro chemical plant of its kind in the world after Germany had captured it in May 1940.
		In an intelligence meeting Brun advised that the destruction of the Vemork plant had much more chance of succeeding if the attack was made on a smaller scale, hitting the structures weak points with a highly trained group of soldiers.
		The sabotage mission on the Vemork plant was now to hinder Germany for the rest of the war.
	www.dunoon-observer.co.uk /archive/arcapr205.html (3545 words)

	The 2001 Class Nordic Bike Adventure - Day 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Today's main feature was the town of Rjukan, and more specifically the heavy water plant in operation at Vemork during WW2.
		The whole story is depicted at the Vemork power plant, the world's biggest when it was opened in 1911, and today a museum.
		...the bridge to Vemork is narrow, and the gorge is deep..
	www.nordicbike.no /ongoing/class.php?side=day2 (165 words)

	Destination Norway
		One of the wars most famous sabotage operations took place at Vemork, and made famous in the film ”The heroes of Telemark”.
		We follow in the saboteurs footsteps — over mountains to the log cabin where they hid, and on the Vemork where the attack took place.
		The experience can be further developed to include climbing and one of Norway's highest bungee jump form the Vemork bridge.
	www.destination-norway.no /English/spesial.htm (220 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Telemark Heroes
		One moonlit winter night in 1943, ten Norwegian commandos of Company Linge, trained and equipped in England, infiltrated the most heavily defended structure in occupied Europe.
		Their objective was to destroy the heavy water production facility in Vemork near Rjukan, which was critical to the Nazi atom bomb project.
		Norsk Hydro was the only plant in the world capable of producing the quantities of heavy water sought by the Nazis - which explains the importance of this plant during WWII.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/telemark.shtml (477 words)

	Maps produced by the Rjukan project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This map is based on the Vemork approach map.
		It's a Christmas spirit map where jv_map:s snowcontest modification is the basis of gameplay...
		Everybody are armed with ice packed snowballs, and the Allies must destroy the Axis snowman by hitting it with 10 snowballs.
	www.planetmedalofhonor.com /rjukanproject/download/download_maps.html (1131 words)

	Ice Climbing Accommodation in the Rjukan Valley, Norway - Rjukan.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With over 140 frozen waterfalls, it is one of the few places you can almost guarantee fantastic ice climbing from early December - end of April.
		Our apartments overlook the suspension bridge over the Vemork Gorge in Våer and the infamous Vemork Heavy Water Plant, now a museum.
		Våer is at the top end of the Rjukan Valley and you can see some of the best climbs in the valley from the apartment windows.
	www.rjukan.co.uk (197 words)

	Scandinavia Package Tours - Norway, Denmark and Sweden - A-Z Tours International
		Guided tours of Oslo and Stockholm and visits to Copenhagen, Odense, Aalborg, Telemark Vemork Museum, Bergen, and Karlstad are just a few of the highlights on this memorable tour.
		Take the scenic route this morning for a visit to Vemork, where the heavy water plant was blown up by a commando unit of British and Norwegians known as the Heroes of Telemark.
		Visit the Vemork Museum, then proceed through the Telemark region with its lakes, winding valleys, and rugged gorges backed by towering mountains.
	www.a-ztours.com /scandinavia.htm (723 words)

	Evenementen Kalender 2003 Mei tot oktober Opening van een nieuwe tentoonstelling
		Opening of a new exhibiton "People on the move" by the famous photographer Sebastian Salgado in the Vemork Museum at Rjukan.
		The fish must be weighed and registred at Viedemannens JaktandFishing at Rjukan.
		The new exhibiton "People on the move" by the famous photographer Sebastian Salgado in the Vemork Museum at Rjukan.
	www.rjukanhytte.com /Site_UK/Activiteiten/Evenementen2003.htm (283 words)

	War hero thwarted Nazi atomic bomb plans, dies at 84 [Norwegian hero knocked out heavy water plant] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Skinnarland was an engineer at the Vemork hydroelectric plant that was able to produce small quantities of heavy water needed for plutonium production.
		According to war historian Stephen Stratford, British intelligence learned in 1940, shortly after the Nazi occupation of Norway, that the Vemork plant, west of Oslo, had been ordered to increase heavy water production to nearly 1,400 kilograms a year.
		Skinnarland agreed to return to Vemork as a guide for a sabotage mission, and he was subsequently dropped over the Hardanger Vidda mountains on March 28, 1942.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/844559/posts (476 words)

	The club in pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some views of the ice on offer (various areas): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8
		Phil leading and seconding (Tracy's eyes III, Vemork Gorge): 1 2 3 4 and 5
		A view from the bottom of the Gorge at Vemork
	www.shuttlew.demon.co.uk /pics_index.htm (154 words)

	Vemork approach DM : maps : mapraider.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This map also features the new "Scout" modification.
		It takes place on the mountain Hardangervidda, high above the Heavy water production plant at Vemork Rjukan in Norway.
		This map is inspired by a real WW2 operation executed in february 1943 called Operation Gunnerside.
	www.mapraider.com /maps?fileid=1232 (201 words)

	The Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum
		Rjukan was one of the first industrial towns in Norway, and the museum documents the changes that industrial development imposed on a little agricultural community.
		Heavy water, a crucial factor in the development of the atomic bomb, was produced in the hydrogen factory at Vemork.
		The museum has a separate exhibit featuring the heavy water sabotage action that prevented Nazi Germany from developing such a bomb during WWII.
	www.olavsrosa.no /en/objektinfo.aspx?id=27051 (137 words)

	FileFront - The Most Gaming Files on the Web
		Heavy water production plant at Vemork in Rjukan Norway february 1943 INSTALLING THE MAP
		Heavy water production plant at Vemork in Rjukan, Norway, february 1943
		Afterwards the scouts remained on the mountain, while the demolitions team went on skies into
	files.filefront.com /965996 (1061 words)

	Traveljournals.net - Vemork, Telemark, Norway - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
		Traveljournals.net - Vemork, Telemark, Norway - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
		/ Explore / Norway / Locations / Vemork, Telemark
		Maps and coordinates for Vemork, Telemark, Norway are approximative and not valid for navigation.
	www.traveljournals.net /explore/norway/map/m441250/vemork.html (71 words)

	Bridgemeister - Vemork - Vemork, Våer vicinity, Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bridgemeister - Vemork - Vemork, Våer vicinity, Norway
		This is a single suspension bridge from my historical inventory of suspension bridges.
		Do you have any information or photos about this bridge that you would like to share?
	www.bridgemeister.com /bridge.php?bid=1512 (47 words)

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