Oscarsborg Fortress
Oscarsborg Fortress is a coastal fortress in the Oslofjord, close to the town of Drøbak in Akershus County, Norway. The best known part is situated on two small islets: Nordre Kaholmen and Søndre Kaholmen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Military installation
- Description: coastal fortress in the Oslofjord, Norway
- Also known as: “Oscarborg”
Photo: Hofi0006, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Schmidtth, Public domain.
Photo: Ulflarsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Småskjær and Bergholmen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drøbak and Fagerstrand.
Drøbak
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Drøbak is in the Frogn municipality, in the county of Akershus in Norway, at the shores of the Oslofjord, a few miles south-east of Oslo.
Fagerstrand
Village
Fagerstrand is a village in the municipality of Nesodden, in the county of Akershus, in the country of Norway. It is south of Oslo on the peninsula of Nesodden. Fagerstrand is situated 7 km north of Oscarsborg Fortress.
Spro
Quarter
Spro is a village in Nesodden municipality, Akershus, Norway. It is a former site of ice block extradition industry, and there are a number of man-made ponds created for this purpose. Spro is situated 10 km north of Oscarsborg Fortress.
Oscarsborg Fortress
- Categories: military museum, fortification, and coastal battery
- Location: Frogn, Akershus, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.67353° or 59° 40′ 25″ northLongitude
10.60708° or 10° 36′ 26″ eastElevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open location code
9FFGMJF4+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 6463615980OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Oscarsborg Fortress” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوسكاربورغ”
- Chinese: “奥斯卡堡要塞”
- Chinese: “奥斯卡斯堡要塞”
- Chinese: “奧斯卡博格要塞”
- Chinese: “奧斯卡堡要塞”
- Chinese: “奧斯卡斯堡要塞”
- Chinese: “歐斯峽灣”
- Danish: “Oscarsborg”
- Dutch: “Fort Oscarsborg”
- Esperanto: “Fortikaĵo Oscarsborg”
- Esperanto: “Oscarsborg”
- Estonian: “Oscarsborgi kindlus”
- Finnish: “Oscarsborg”
- French: “forteresse d’Oscarsborg”
- French: “Forteresse d’Oscarsborg”
- German: “Oscarsborg”
- German: “Oskarsborg”
- Japanese: “オスカースボルグ要塞”
- Japanese: “オスカーボルク要塞”
- Japanese: “オスカルスボルグ要塞”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oscarsborg festning”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oscarsborg Festning”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oscarsborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oscarsborg festning”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oscarsborg Festning”
- Norwegian: “Oscarsborg festning”
- Polish: “Twierdza Oscarsborg”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Oscarsborg”
- Swedish: “Moses och Aron”
- Swedish: “Oscarsborg festning”
- Swedish: “Oscarsborg”
- Swedish: “Oscarsborgs fästning”
- Swedish: “Oskarsborg”
- Ukrainian: “Фортеця Оскарборг”
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