
Snarøya is a populated peninsula in the inner
Oslofjord
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in
Norway
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. It belongs to
Bærum
Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a populatio ...
municipality in
Akershus
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county. It is located south of the districts
Lysaker
Lysaker is an area in Bærum Municipality, Akershus County, Norway. Lysaker is the easternmost part of Bærum and borders Oslo proper. Lysaker was initially a farming community, later becoming a residential area. Today it is primarily known as ...
,
Lagåsen and
Fornebu, and has 2,940 inhabitants.
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.
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It is unclear when the island was first settled, but the manor ''Snarøen'' is known from historical sources. In 1616 the manor was registered as ]crown land
Crown land, also known as royal domain, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown. It is the equivalent of an entailed estate and passes with the monarchy, being inseparable from it. Today, in Commonwealth realm ...
, but it later became privately owned. It comprised the entire island.
The theologist Christian Kølle, who owned the manor from 1770 and 1803,[ contributed to history as he published the ]topographical
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Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary scienc ...
pamphlet in 1792. His daughter Catharine Hermine Kølle, born at Snarøya, is known as the first female painter in Norway.[
In 1867 the manor was bought by a Valentin Fürst, who transformed it into a sawmill. The sawmill was closed in 1907, and at the same time much of the surrounding land was parcelled out into lots for single-owner homes and cottages. In 1923 the manor itself was bought by Mario Caprino, father of the noted film director and writer ]Ivo Caprino
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norway, Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films. His most noted film, ''Flåklypa Grand Prix'' (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix), was made in 1975.
Early life
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. In 1952 it was rebuilt into a film studio, Caprino Studios.[
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Demographics
As of 31 December 2007 the district Snarøya had 2,940 inhabitants. This places Snarøya among the lesser-populated districts in Bærum.[Population of districts in Bærum]
– Bærum municipality However, the population is increasing, having been 2,748 in 2001. The age distribution was 28.2% who were 19 years or younger, 8.8% ages 20 to 29, 28.7% ages 30 to 49, 23.3% ages 50 to 66 and 11.0% who were 67 years of age or older.[
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Culture
Snarøya has a primary school with 326 pupils. The secondary school is located at Hundsund at Fornebu.
Snarøya formerly had its own library as a branch of the municipal public library service. This was discontinued in December 1988.
Sport
The local multi-sports team Snarøya SK was founded on 1 July 1920. It has sections for association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
, bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
The playin ...
and team handball
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. It has two fields with artificial turf
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, one of which is turned into a bandy field
A bandy field or bandy rink is a large ice rink used for playing the team winter sport of bandy. Being about the size of a football pitch, it is substantially larger than an ice hockey rink.
History
Originally, bandy was played on naturally froz ...
during the winte
The district also has a tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
club, Snarøya TK, which Norway's No. 1 Casper Ruud
Casper Ruud (; born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in September 2022, making him t ...
represents, as well as a curling
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club, Snarøya CC.
Politics
As a district of Bærum, Snarøya is not self-governed, but elects members to the municipal council
A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...
. Representatives to the municipal council are elected through a party-list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...
system with plural member constituencies
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. As such, the entire municipality is a single constituency. Snarøya is one of several sub-constituencies within the municipality, meaning that each sub-constituency has its own polling station
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, for accessibility purposes.
In national elections, the sub-constituency Snarøya contributes towards the total vote in the county, not the municipality. Similarly, the party lists consist of candidates from different parts of the county.
The recent electoral results for Snarøya are as follows:
Transportation
Located south of the district Fornebu, Snarøya was served by 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 ...
from 1939 until the airport was closed in 1998.
Snarøya is not accessible by railway
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, although a branch line
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from the Lilleaker Line
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was proposed in 1919. Instead, it is served by bus, ''line 31'' in the Greater Oslo transportation network. The bus service has been operated since 1921, and was the basis for the first permanent residential areas. Other than that, cars are prevalent, though bicycles are also used. The peninsula is also accessible by boat.
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