Sandvika

Sandvika

Infobox Settlement
name =Sandvika
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other_name =
native_name =
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settlement_type =Unincorporated city


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image_caption = Sandvika seen from Høvikodden


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pushpin_map_caption =Location within Norway
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Norway
subdivision_type1 = County
subdivision_name1 = Akershus
subdivision_type2 = District
subdivision_name2 = Viken
subdivision_type3 = Municipality
subdivision_name3 = Bærum
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established_title = City status
established_date = June 4, 2004
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd= 59 |latm= 53 |lats= |latNS= N
longd= 10 |longm= 31 |longs= |longEW= E
elevation_m = 12
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Audio|Sandvika.ogg|Sandvika is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum in Norway, and declared itself a city on 4 June, 2003. [http://www.baerum.kommune.no/sandvika (in Norwegian)]

Sandvika is situated approximately convert|15|km|mi|spell=us west of Oslo and has a bus station and railway. Sandvika is also one of the stops along the route of the "Flytoget" Airport Express Train. It takes approx. 39 minutes to get to the airport from here. [http://www.flytoget.no/upload/ft_rutetabell_2006_2.pdf] Sandvika used to be home to the "Norwegian School of Management" business school, usually referred to by the Norwegian abbreviation "BI". This school moved to new surroundings in Nydalen, Oslo in August 2005. [http://www.bi.no/templates/artikkel____11192.aspx (in Norwegian)] The high school called Sandvika Videregående Skole were established in the former BI building.

The nearby island "Kalvøya" is a good place for recreation.Fact|date=February 2007 In summer it hosts numerous barbecue parties whilst during winter it forms the base for warmly-dressed fishermen who endure the cold weather and ice fish for cod and sea trout on the frozen waters around Sandvika.Fact|date=February 2007

A small islet in Sandviksbukta outside Sandvika is called "Danmark". Danes who live in the Oslo area join together every year on June 5, Denmark's national day to celebrate. [ [http://www.dansksamfund.info/grunnlovsdag.htm Danish Society in Oslo] Report from the 2002 ceremony. Invitation indicates such celebrations in previous years. ]

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