There is also a ferry between the village of Tenvik on the southwestern coast of Nøtterøy and the island of Veierland in the Tønsbergfjorden.

[2] Nøtterøy was an important location for telegraphy during the Gunboat War between Sweden and Great Britain from 1807 to 1814, when two telegraph stations were on the island at its two highest points: Vardås and Vetan.

[3] During World War II, the Germans planned three gun emplacements on Vardås, which were to have a range of 48 kilometres (30 mi).

[7] The bedrock of the island consists of monzonite rocks: gray to blue-gray larvikite and reddish brown tønsbergite.

Along the sea and other places where the rocky hills have little vegetation, there are large, clear scour marks from the last ice age.