Cave · Røros, Norway

Olavsgruva Mine

Fifty metres underground at five degrees year-round, in a copper mine worked from 1650.

Olavsgruva Mine is in Røros, and this is Røros — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 960 km across and 340 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 90 minutes · Open year-round · 62.641°N, 11.554°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The Bergen and Dovre railways are two of Europe's great train rides and cost less than the equivalent flight if booked early. All of Norway →

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Røros · Trøndelag · Norway

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Other places in Røros

Røros Church

A 1784 stone church seating 1,600 in a town of 3,700, built by a copper company for its workers.

Church

Slaggveien

Turf-roofed miners' cottages built on the slag heaps, which is the whole social history in one lane.

Street

The record

What this atlas holds about Olavsgruva Mine, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Cave
Give it: 90 minutes
Season: Open year-round
Where: 62.641°N, 11.554°E
In: Røros