- Nesodden
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Nesodden kommune — Municipality — 
Coat of arms
Akershus within
NorwayNesodden within Akershus
Coordinates: 59°48′31″N 10°39′20″E / 59.80861°N 10.65556°ECoordinates: 59°48′31″N 10°39′20″E / 59.80861°N 10.65556°E Country Norway County Akershus District Follo Administrative centre Nesoddtangen Government – Mayor (2008) Christian Hintze Holm (SV) Area – Total 61 km2 (23.6 sq mi) – Land 61 km2 (23.6 sq mi) Area rank 416 in Norway Population (2006) – Total 16,541 – Rank 61 in Norway – Density 265/km2 (686.3/sq mi) – Change (10 years) 16.1 % Demonym Nesodding[1] Time zone CET (UTC+1) – Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) ISO 3166 code NO-0216 Official language form Bokmål Website nesodden.kommune.no Data from Statistics Norway Nesodden is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nesoddtangen. The parish of Næsodden was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The new municipality of Oppegård was separated from Nesodden on 1 July 1915.
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General information
Name
The name (Old Norse: Nesoddi) is an old district name. The first element is nes which means "headland" and the last element is (the finite form of) odde which means "point".[2]
The very tip of the peninsula is presently called Nesoddtangen, where the last element is (the finite form of) tange which means "spit". In fact, all three elements in this name have (nearly) the same meaning.
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 12 December 1986. The arms show a silver triangle on a blue background as a canting of the geographical position of the municipality, which is situated on a peninsula in the Oslofjord.[3]
Geography
Nesodden is located on the tip of the peninsula between main Oslofjord and its arm Bunnefjorden. It includes the villages Hellvik, Fjellstrand, Bjørnemyr, Nesoddtangen, and Fagerstrand, which is also the name of a reality show that was filmed on Fagerstrand and aired on TV 2 during the first half of 2005. Nesoddtangen has passenger ferry connections to Bærum and Oslo (23 min).
Notable residents
Several Norwegian celebrities currently live in Nesodden.
- news presenter: Bjørn Hansen
- actors: Bjørn Sundquist, Jørgen Langhelle, Hildegunn Rise, and Gard B. Eidsvold
- artists: Ulf Kristiansen, Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven)
- authors: Hanne Ørstavik, Olav Njølstad
- politicians: Dagfinn Høybråten, Reiulf Steen, and Gunnar Garbo
- model: Helene Rask
- singers/songwriters: Sondre Lerche, and Trine Rein.
- comedian: Åsleik Engmark
- composer: Thomas von Sonnenberg;
- athlete: Stig Roar Husby
- polar explorer: Børge Ousland
- Former residents: politician Kåre Kristiansen, lawyer Arne Haugestad and musician Thomas "Happy-Tom" Seltzer.
References
- ^ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskrivning_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn/.
- ^ Rygh, Oluf (1905). Norske gaardnavne: Akershus amt (2 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 86. http://books.google.com/books?id=IYdBAAAAIAAJ. (Norwegian)
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/n/nesodden.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
External links
Media related to Nesodden at Wikimedia Commons
The Wiktionary definition of Nesodden- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
- Akershus travel guide from Wikitravel
Municipalities of Akershus 
Categories:- Municipalities of Akershus
- Nesodden
- Peninsulas of Norway
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