Gotska Sandön
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| Waters | Baltic Sea | |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 21 '58 " N , 19 ° 14' 59" E | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | 5 km | |
| surface | 3.6 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Gotska Sandön is a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea , 40 km north of Fårö . It is about 8 km long, 5 km wide and has an area of 3,601 ha. During the Crimean War it served as a British naval base. The island has been part of the Gotska Sandön National Park since 1963 .
In the 1960s, some seals were brought to London Zoo by Gotska Sandön , but they did not survive long there.
Literary implementation
Gotska Sandön is the setting for a crime novel by the Swedish author Mari Jungstedt .
Web links
Commons : Gotska Sandön - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Edgar Anderson: The Crimean War in the Baltic area. In: Journal of Baltic Studies , 5/4, 1974, p. 343; JSTOR 43212047
- ↑ Ingemar Ahlén: The Bat Fauna of some isolated Islands in Scandinavia. In: Oikos , 41/3 (special issue Island faunas ), 1983, p. 356; JSTOR 3544093
- ↑ O. Hook, AG Johnels: The Breeding and Distribution of the Gray Seal (. Halichoerus grypus Fab) in the Baltic Sea, with Observations on other Seals of the area . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . Series B, Biological Sciences, 182/1066, 1972, pp. 44, 46; JSTOR 76302
- ^ Mari Jungsted: I Denna Ljuva Sommartid. Bonnier, Stockholm 2007.