Huk, Norway

59.896°N 10.675°E / 59.896; 10.675

The public beach

Huk is a parkland and a sandy beach (Hukodden) at the furthest south of the Bygdøy peninsula west of the city center of Oslo, Norway.

The area was acquired by Aker municipality in 1921.^[1] The bathing beach is divided into a regular public beach and a naturist beach area. The naturist beach is on a shank^[2][3] northwest of Hukodden, formerly the garden of the brush manufacturer Jordan.^[4][5]

Jens Stoltenberg's second government bought in 2005 a villa with shoreline bordering the public beach at Huk, and in 2006 opened a new public beach there.^[6] The villa was later resold but the shoreline is still open for all.^[7]

Just off the beach area are sculptures, Large Arch (1963–1969) by Henry Moore^[8] and Icarus (1965) and Døhlen by Anne Sofie Døhlen (1967).^[1]

The area is accessible by bus number 30 from central Oslo.^[9]

Huk as seen from the Oslofjord. Naturist beach left, the main beach and the new beach to the right