Langøyene
Fjord island of beaches, meadows and wild camping, built over a capped former city landfill.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Langøyene, the green island a short ferry ride out into the fjord from Oslo, starts with a puzzle hidden in its own name. It follows the city's household and industrial rubbish across four decades of the early twentieth century, and asks what a capital does with its waste when it has a fjord to hand. Best heard standing on the flat grassy field at the island's middle.
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