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KolsÃ¥s

Kolsås is a wooded mountain ridge in the municipality of Bærum

Bærum

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Sandvika....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. Geologically, Kolsås belongs to the Oslo Graben

Oslo Graben

The Oslo Graben or Oslo Rift is a graben formed during a geologic Rift event in Permian time. The rift formation was accompanied by volcanic activity and associated rhomb porphyry lava flows....
area. Its two peaks consist of hard rhomb porphyric lava

Lava

Lava is molten Rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. When first expelled from a volcanic vent, it is a liquid at temperatures from 700 ?C to 1,200 ?C ....
covering softer rocks, forming steep cliffs to the east, south and west.

area from Kolsås to Dælivannet

Dælivannet

D?livannet is a lake in B?rum in Akershus county, Norway. It lies just beneath the Kols?s hill on the East side. The lake contains perch and pike and has a rich bird life....
is a protected landscape area from 1978 (five square kilometers), with four nature reserve

Nature reserve

A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora , fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for Conservation ethic and to provide special opportunities for study or research....
s: Skotta, Dalbo, Kolsåsstupene and Kolsåstoppen nature reserve.

ås has been a training area for climbers since beginning of the 20th century.

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Kolsås is a wooded mountain ridge in the municipality of Bærum

Bærum

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Sandvika....
, Norway

Norway

Oslo Graben

Lava

Protected landscape area

The area from Kolsås to Dælivannet

Dælivannet

Nature reserve

Climbing

Kolsås has been a training area for climbers since beginning of the 20th century. Today it is the largest rock climbing

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural Rock formations or man-made climbing wall with the goal of reaching the Summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route....
area

List of climbing areas

This is a list of articles about climbing areas and regions associated with climbing.Table of Contents--------...
in the Oslo region. The wall Øvre Sydstup on the southern wall has more than 200 climbing routes.

Winter sports

The northern hillside of Kolsås has alpine skiing facilities.

Kolsåsbanen

The Kols?s Line is a rapid transit line on the Oslo T-bane network which runs between the city center of Oslo and Kols?s in B?rum, Norway. With 18 km, it is the longest lines of the entire network; and a long stretch of the line is located in B?rum....
is part of the subway rail system Oslo T-bane

Oslo T-bane

Oslo T-bane is the rapid transit system of Oslo, Norway, operated by Oslo T-banedrift on contract from the transit authority Ruter. The network consists of six lines that all run through the city center, with a total length of ....
, running from downtown Oslo to Kolsås station

Kolsås (station)

Kols?s is the end station of Kols?sbanen on the Oslo T-bane system. The station, located in B?rum municipality, comes after Hauger , and is located 17.3 km from the central station Stortinget ....
, via Gjettum station

Gjettum (station)

Gjettum is a station on Kols?s Line of the Oslo T-bane system. It is located between Hauger and Valler at the foot of Kols?stoppen, 15.5 km from Stortinget ....
and Hauger station

Hauger (station)

Hauger is a station on Kols?sbanen on the Oslo T-bane system. It is between Kols?s and Gjettum , 16.5 km from Stortinget . It serves the neighborhood Hauger and the mainly industrial area Rud....
.

NATO base

The military base Kolsås leir, partly located inside the mountain, was home of NATO's Allied Forces Northern Europe

Allied Forces Northern Europe

Allied Forces Northern Europe was the most northern NATO command located at Kols?s outside Oslo. It was part of Allied Command Europe from around 1952 to 2003....
(AFNORTH) until 1994.

Culture

The area has occurrences of old petroglyph

Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are s created by removing part of a Rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images....
s, tumuli

Tumulus

A tumulus is a mound of Soil and Rock s raised over a Grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, H?gelgrab or kurgans, and can be found throughout much of the world....
and limestone

Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
quarries

Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mining from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone....
.

The French painter Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was a founder of French impressionism painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting....
painted Mont Kolsaas in 1895.

The name

The last element in the name is ås m 'mountain ridge'. The first element is probably the genitive case of the old male name Kolr. (An old farm lying beneath the mountain has the name Kolsberg, and this farm is probably named after the same person.)