Huk
Crescent sandy beach and parkland on ancient fossil limestone, with a separate naturist shore.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Huk, the beach at the southern tip of Bygdøy in Oslo, looks down rather than out to sea. It follows the grey rock between the towels back to an ancient seabed, the shelled animals and trilobites that lived there, and a name geologists carry far beyond the Oslofjord. Along the way it touches on the municipality that bought the headland for bathers and the brush manufacturer whose garden became the naturist beach. Best heard crouching on the flat stone by the water.
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