Haparanda Skärgård National Park

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Haparanda Skärgård National Park
Haparanda Skärgård National Park (Sweden)
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Coordinates: 65 ° 34 ′ 40 ″  N , 23 ° 44 ′ 29 ″  E
Location: Sweden
Next city: Haparanda
Surface: 60 km²
Founding: 1995
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Haparanda Skärgård is a Swedish national park in the archipelago south of Haparanda at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia . Characteristic are the wide sandy beaches with an exotic dune landscape as well as species-rich plants and birds.

The nature of the national park was created by a varied interplay of wind, waves and uplift . The largest island in the park is called Sandskär and is about 400  hectares in size. At 8.5 mm per year, the land uplift is still extremely strong today.