Blekinge archipelago

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A Blekinge Eka in the archipelago off Blekinge; the Blekinge Eka is a traditional type of ship from Blekinge and Bornholm.

The archipelago of Blekinge (also Blekinge Archipelago , Swedish : skärgård Blekinge and Danish : Blekinge skärgård ) is an archipelago in the south of Blekinge in Sweden .

geography

The Blekinge archipelago stretches east of Listerland on the south coast of Blekinge and includes almost a thousand islands, of which around 800 are longer than 50 meters. The archipelago covers an area of ​​around 210,000 ha, the pure land mass amounts to around 54,000 ha. Some of the islands are connected to the mainland by bridges. Far off the mainland is the Utklippan archipelago . Larger islands are Aspö , Hasslö , Tärnö , Sturkö and Utlängan . About 4,000 people live on the islands.

In the middle of the archipelago, after the conquest of Blekinge, which previously belonged to Denmark, in 1679, the city of Karlskrona was used as a naval base by King Charles XI. built. The city was built on 33 archipelago islands.

history

There are several archaeological sites in the archipelago, so it was settled early on. The area was part of Denmark until 1658 and was disputed between the two countries for a long time. In October 1981, a Soviet submarine stranded in the archipelago not far from Karlskronas. As a result, there were further submarine incidents . The archipelago was recognized as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Blekinge Archipelago  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Roth Kamp, Thomas Kramer and Petra Woebke: Guide Southern Sweden . Bruckmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7654-5495-0 , p. 73 .
  2. ↑ Blekinge skärgård. Thomas Karlsson, accessed November 10, 2015 .

Coordinates: 56 ° 10 ′ 59 ″  N , 15 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E