Snarøya
Sign in to savethumb|Church thumb|Secondary school at Hundsund grendesenter thumb|Snarøya's only grocery store Snarøya is a populated peninsula in the inner Oslofjord in Norway. It belongs to Bærum municipality in Akershus county. It is located south of the districts Lysaker, Lagåsen and Fornebu, and has 2,940 inhabitants. thumb|Football fields of Hundsund grendesenter. The closer one is turned into a [[bandy field in winter.]]
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cached 1434h agoKey facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Snarøya
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- Village
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- top
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- Location in Akershus
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- Norway
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- Region
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- Østlandet
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- County
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- Akershus
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- +01:00
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thumb|Church thumb|Secondary school at Hundsund grendesenter thumb|Snarøya's only grocery store Snarøya is a populated peninsula in the inner Oslofjord in Norway. It belongs to Bærum municipality in Akershus county. It is located south of the districts Lysaker, Lagåsen and Fornebu, and has 2,940 inhabitants. thumb|Football fields of Hundsund grendesenter. The closer one is turned into a [[bandy field in winter.]]
==History== Its name is derived from the word snar, meaning thicket or brushy terrain. The suffix -øya refers to the fact that the peninsula was an island until the nineteenth century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Snarøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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