Kolsås
Sign in to saveKolsås (), sometimes called Kolsaas, is a hill in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Geologically, Kolsås belongs to the Oslo Graben area. Its two peaks consist of hard rhomb porphyric lava covering softer rocks, forming steep cliffs to the east, south and west.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Kolsås is referenced by 41 other articles, and connects out to Norway, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Bærum, Landforms of Akershus and Mountains of Oslo.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Bærum Municipality
- Image
- Kolsåstoppen.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kolsåstoppen, Bærum
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- The name
- Protected landscape area
- Climbing
- Winter sports
- Kolsåsbanen
- NATO base
- Culture
- References
Kolsås (), sometimes called Kolsaas, is a hill in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Geologically, Kolsås belongs to the Oslo Graben area. Its two peaks consist of hard rhomb porphyric lava covering softer rocks, forming steep cliffs to the east, south and west.
==The name== An old farm beneath the mountain has the name Kolsberg. The first element in this name is the genitive case of the old male name Kolr, and the last element is berg n 'mountain'. The parish and municipality of Bærum (Old Norse Bergheimr) is probably named after this prominent mountain. The last element in the name of the mountain was later changed to ås m 'mountain ridge' to distinguish it from the name of the farm.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolsås” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations