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Islands / Bærum / Snarøya
Originally an island, but the sound was filled in and Snarøya is now a peninsula attached to the mainland at Fornebu. A densely built residential area with popular bathing places at Rolfstangen and Halden brygge.
Out at Fornebu, where the peninsula runs into the fjord, villas stand close together down to the water. From the sea you see the bathing places at Rolfstangen and Halden brygge and the small-boat harbours. The Vassholmene islets lie offshore. Snarøya was an island once, but the sound towards the mainland has been filled in. Snarøykilen and Hundsundet show where the sea used to run.
Attached to the mainland; car or bus from Fornebu and Oslo.
The island is connected by road, so you need neither a boat nor a timetable.
In the 1500s Snarøya was an island, bounded by what are now Snarøykilen and Hundsundet. The sound was later filled in, and the island became the peninsula it is today.
Snarøen farm was crown land in the 1600s, and Jon Snarøen worked it from 1612 to 1640. The theologian Christian Kølle owned the property from 1770 to 1803 and ran a boarding school for the sons of wealthy families alongside the farming. In 1867 Valentin Fürst bought the farm and started Snarøen Høvleri, a planing mill that operated until 1907. The vice-consul and painter Mario Caprino took over in 1923, and the property stayed in the Caprino family. The film-maker Ivo Caprino built his studio here in two stages, in 1952 and 1962.
Snarøya is a densely built residential area of villas, terraced houses and blocks of flats, much of it put up from the 1950s onwards. Snarøya school opened in 1958. Hundsund grendesenter, a lower secondary school, followed in 2008. The bathing places at Rolfstangen and Halden brygge are popular summer spots.
Snarøya is attached to the mainland and reached by car or bus from Fornebu and Oslo; bus 31 terminates here. From the water, boat visitors can land at the bathing places at Rolfstangen and Halden brygge. There is no ferry connection. Much of the coast is private villa ground, so keep to the prepared bathing places and to the shore zone the Outdoor Recreation Act (*friluftsloven*) allows.
Snarøya still carries *øya*, the island, in its name, though it stopped being one when the sound was filled in. The name holds on to a geography that has gone.
Ivo Caprino, who made the animated film Flåklypa Grand Prix, had his studio here. The Caprino family has owned the old farm property since 1923.
The same property has been crown land, a boarding school for the sons of rich men and a planing mill, three different lives on one piece of ground before the villas came.
Oslo Sea Experience passes Snarøya on its private fjord trips from Tjuvholmen.
The Norwegian version notes which facts were taken from each source: Snarøya på norsk.