Fornebu (local form ''Fornebo'') is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of

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, bordering western parts of

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Oslo Airport, Fornebu Oslo Airport, Fornebu was the primary international airport serving Oslo and Eastern Norway from 1 June 1939 to 7 October 1998. It was then replaced by Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, and the area has since been redeveloped. The airport was located at ...

(FBU) served as the main airport for Oslo and the country since before

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and until the evening of October 7, 1998, when it was closed down. Overnight, a grand moving operation was performed, so that the following morning, the new main airport, located inland at

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(OSL), opened for operations as the main airport, as opposed to previously having been a minor airport. As of 2001, the Fornebu area is being developed as a centre for

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and telecom industry, as well as there being some housing project developments nearby. The new headquarters of Norway's telecom giant

Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwi ...

are located in the area. The peninsula is connected to Langodden and

Snarøya 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. History Its name is de ...

, which are more established areas of private residences.

Etymology

The name ( Norse ''Fornabú(ð)'') originally belonged to an old farm on the peninsula. The first element is the genitive form of an old male name ''Forni'', the last element is ''bú'' n 'farm' (or maybe ''búð'' f '

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, simple house').

Economy

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's Norway offices are in Fornebu.

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Canal Digital Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator T ...

Equinor Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It is primarily a petroleum company, petroleum company operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renew ...

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and

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are also based at Fornebu.

Partnair Partnair A/S was a Norwegian charter airline which operated from 1971 to 1989. During the later 1980s it was Norway's fifth-largest airline by revenue, operating a fleet of three Convair CV-580 and six Beechcraft Super King Air. The airline was ...

, a charter airline, was headquartered at Fornebu Airport up to 1989. When the airline Busy Bee of Norway existed, its head office was on the grounds of Fornebu Airport.

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and

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had their head office facilities in a building on the grounds of Fornebu Airport. In 2010 Norwegian Air Shuttle bought the former Braathens head office.Henriksen, Øyvind.
Kjos kjøper Braathensbygget
." E24. 24 February 2010. Retrieved on 24 February 2010. "Norwegian-sjef Bjørn Kjos kjøper det tidligere hovedkvarteret til Braathens og SAS Norge. Nå skal Norwegian flytte inn i bygningen" and "Oksenøyveien 3 på Fornebu utenfor Oslo er kjøpt av Bjørn Kjos og Bjørn Kise."

Climate

References

{{Authority control Neighbourhoods in Bærum Peninsulas of Akershus

Etymology

Economy

Climate

See also

References