Kadettangen

The peninsula is now used mainly for boating, beach life and sports, being the home ground of association football club Bærum SK.

The peninsula is located slightly south of the town of Sandvika, at the outlet of the river Sandvikselva, at the opposite shore of Kjørbo.

[4] The practice of filling around Kadettangen continues to this day, with proposals to increase the land area with leftover material from the excavation of the Løkkeås Tunnel as a part of Norwegian National Road 164.

Some time between 1820 and 1825 the Norwegian Military Academy started using it as a bivouac camp for summer training of cadets, hence the name change.

[4] The inner parts of the peninsula were sold by Kjørbo Manor's owner, Erich Waller, to Christiania og Omegns Dampskibsselskab in 1857.

The steamship company went under five years later and the docks they had established at Kadettangen were auction beck to Waller for 40 speciedaler.

[13] IL Tyrving's shed with inventory burned down in 1955, lashing a major blow to the club as they had not insured their assets.

[13] Former mayor of Bærum, Gunnar Gravdahl (Conservative), has stated that the sports facilities should be removed and replaced with a public baths.

[23] His successor as mayor, fellow party member Odd Reinsfelt denounced the idea, stating that there was no viable replacement location for the sporting activities.

[24] In 2009, Bærum SK chairman Jan Erik Aalbu suggested that the sports field be renamed Sandvika stadion.

An artificial grass pitch with a tribune along the western sideline serves as the home ground of the football club Bærum SK,[13] which plays in the First Division as of 2014.

Bærum SK also has an indoor football arena, Bærumshallen, which is used for exhibitions and sales in addition to sports.

[13] The 1947 Norwegian Athletics Championships were held at Bislett Stadion in Oslo, although the decathlon event was organized by Tyrving at Kadettangen.

The company Sandvika Fjordturer operates out of an office at Kadettangen, and its two ships, Rigmor and Rigfar, are in quay at the western shore of the peninsula.