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Abstract
The article summarizes results from an analysis of roads to previously roadless settlements in Norway since 1965. A decade later, some 35,000 people had been connected to the road system, leaving today some 600 populated settlements with altogether c.20,000 inhabitants still without road or car ferry connections. The average settlement has thus only some 30–40 inhabitants, and most of them (75%) are even smaller. In conclusion, the article also briefly discusses the difficult political evaluation of whether these remaining settlements should be characterized as marginal or not, in relation to the objective of preserving the present settlement pattern.