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Nesodden

Nesodden is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Akershus

Akershus

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. It is part of the traditional region

Districts of Norway

Norway is divided into a number of districts. Many districts have deep historical roots, and only partially coincide with today's administrative units of counties of Norway and municipalities of Norway....
of Follo

Follo

Follo is one of three Districts of Norway in the county of Akershus, Norway. It is located between Oslo and ?stfold and includes the southwestern part of the county's area east of Oslo, namely the municipalities Frogn, Oppeg?rd, Ski, Norway, Vestby, ?s, Nesodden, and Enebakk ....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesoddtangen

Nesoddtangen

Nesoddtangen is a village in, and the administrative centre of Nesodden in Akershus, Norway. It had 10,911 residents in 2005; about three-quarters of the municipalities population....
. The parish of Næsodden was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Charles XIV John of Sweden on 14 January 1837....
). The new municipality of Oppegård

Oppegård

Oppeg?rd is a village and Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kolbotn....
was separated from Nesodden on 1 July 1915.

name (Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
: Nesoddi) is an old district name.

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Nesodden is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Akershus

Akershus

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Districts of Norway

Follo

Nesoddtangen

Formannskapsdistrikt

Oppegård

General information

Name

The name (Old Norse

Old Norse

Headland

A headland is land surrounded by water on three sides.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...
" and the last element is (the finite form of) odde which means "point".

The very tip of the peninsula is presently called Nesoddtangen, where the last element is (the finite form of) tange which means "spit

Spit (landform)

A spit is a Deposition landform found off coasts. At one end, spits connect to land, while at the far end they exist in open water. A spit is a type of bar or beach that develops where a re-entrant occurs, such as at cove's headlands, by the process of longshore drift....
". In fact, all three elements in this name have (nearly) the same meaning.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. They were granted on 12 December 1986. The arms show a silver triangle on a blue background as a canting

Canting arms

Canting arms is a technique used in European heraldry whereby the name of the individual or community represented in a coat of arms is "translated" into a visual pun or rebus....
of the geographical position of the municipality, which is situated on a peninsula in the Oslofjord

Oslofjord

The Oslofjord is a bay in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the Torbj?rnskj?r fyrstasjon and F?rder lighthouses and down to Langesund in the south to Oslo in the north....
.

Geography

Nesodden is located on the tip of the peninsula between main Oslofjord and its arm Bunnefjorden

Bunnefjorden

Bunnefjorden is the part of Oslofjorden placed east of Nesodden. North east part is in Oslo and the south part in ?s, Frogn and the middle part is in Nesodden and Oppeg?rd....
. It includes the villages Fjellstrand

Fjellstrand, Norway

Fjellstrand is a small rural district in the municipality of Nesodden, in the county of Akershus, in the country of Norway. The population was 832 as of 2005....
, Bjørnemyr

Bjørnemyr

Bj?rnemyr is a Norway village located on the west coast of the municipality of Nesodden. The Bj?rnemyr Centre contains a grocery store, a hairdresser and spa, and a doctor's office....
, Nesoddtangen, and Fagerstrand

Fagerstrand

Fagerstrand is a village in the municipality of Nesodden, in the county of Akershus, in the country of Norway. It is south of Oslo on the peninsula of Nesodden....
, which is also the name of a reality show

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors....
that was filmed on Fagerstrand and aired on TV 2

TV 2 (Norway)

TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....
during the first half of 2005. Nesoddtangen has passenger ferry

Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
connections to 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....
and Oslo

Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
(23 min).

Notable residents

Several Norwegian celebrities currently live in Nesodden.

news presenter
News presenter

A news presenter is, broadly speaking, a person that presents a news program on television, radio or the Internet. The term is not commonly used by people in the industry as they tend to use more descriptive - and sometimes country-specific - terms....
: Bjørn Hansen
actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
s: Bjørn Sundquist
Bjørn Sundquist

Bj?rn Richard Sundquist For many years he worked at Det Norske teater and Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and he is especially famous for the roles as Merlin and Hamlet....
, Jørgen Langhelle
Jørgen Langhelle

J?rgen Langhelle is a Norwegian actor....
, Hildegunn Rise, and Gard B. Eidsvold
author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
: Hanne Ørstavik
Hanne Ørstavik

Hanne ?rstavik is a Norway writer. Her literary debut was the novel Hakk , and she followed up next year with Entropi . She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2002 for her literary works, and the Brage Prize in 2004 for the novel Presten....
politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
s: Dagfinn Høybråten
Dagfinn Høybråten

Dagfinn H?ybr?ten , is a Norway politician, representing the Kristelig Folkeparti . He has a political degree from the University of Oslo in 1984....
, Reiulf Steen
Reiulf Steen

Reiulf Steen is a Norway politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. He was active in the Norwegian Labour Party from 1958 to 1990, serving as deputy party chairman from 1965 to 1975 and chairman from 1975 to 1981....
, and Gunnar Garbo
model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
: Helene Rask
Helene Rask

Helene Rask is a Norway model from Nesodden.She was born in November 1980 and has worked as a model since she was 17.She is known from magazines like FHM, Vi Menn, Henne, and Se&H?r og Her&N?....
singers
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
/songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
s Sondre Lerche
Sondre Lerche

Sondre Lerche is a Norway singer, guitarist, and songwriter....
and Trine Rein
Trine Rein

Trine Rein is a Norwegian singer, who belongs to the exclusive group of Norwegian artists who have sold more than a million records. Trine was born in San Francisco in 1970, and therefore has both American and Norwegian citizenship....
comedian
Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
: Åsleik Engmark
composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
: Thomas von Sonnenberg;
athlete: Stig Roar Husby
Stig Roar Husby

Stig Roar Husby is a retired Norway long-distance runner. He represented Strindheim IL and IL i BUL.In 3000 metres he finished fourth at the 1973 European Junior Championships and eighth at the 1985 European Indoor Championships in Athletics....
Former residents: politician Kåre Kristiansen
Kåre Kristiansen

K?re Gudbrand Kristiansen was a Norway politician active in the Christian People's Party . Noted as a conservative within his own party, he was known to take controversial positions at odds with the prevailing consensus....
and lawyer Arne Haugestad
Arne Haugestad

Arne Haugestad was a Norway Supreme Court of Norway lawyer, best known as the leader of the Norwegian movement against the European Economic Community from 1970 to 1973, and as defender for Arne Treholt who was convicted for domestic espionage from 1985 to 1992....
.

External links

from Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norway statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1000, Statistics Norway releases more than 800 Norwegian statistical publications every year on its web site....