Sjursøya is a peninsula located in Oslo, Norway. The peninsula is entirely used by the Port of Oslo as a container and petroleum port, and serves as the primary oil port for Eastern Norway.
A train accident occurred at Sjursøya on 24 March 2010, when a runaway set of 16 empty carriages belonging to CargoNet crashed into a terminal building at high speed.[1] This incident caused 3 deaths and 4 injured persons.
The name edit
The first element is the genitive form of the male name Sjur (from Norse Sigurðr) - the last element is the finite form of øy ('island').
References edit
- ^ "Train in deadly crash in Norwegian capital". BBC News. 2010-03-24.
59°53′17″N 10°45′17″E / 59.88806°N 10.75472°E
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