Skenholmen
| Skenholmen | ||
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| Waters | Baltic Sea | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 48 ' N , 19 ° 3' E | |
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| surface | 256.5 hectares | |
Skenholmen is an island off the coast of the largest Swedish island of Gotland . It is located in the northeast, south of Fårösund . The island has an area of 256.5 hectares.
Skenholmen has a rich bird fauna. Greylag geese , barnacle goose , several hundred pairs of eider ducks , avocets , dunlins , ruff , golden plover , curlew and little tern breed there . Sea eagles are often found on the island in winter . In order to protect the breeding birds, the island cannot be entered between March 15th and July 15th. Skenholmen is almost completely treeless and covered with grass. Sheep is farmed on the island.
credentials
- ↑ Plan for Natura 2000-område: Skenholmen SE0340127. (PDF; 193 kB) (No longer available online.) Länsstyrelsen i Gotlands län, archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; Retrieved January 19, 2013 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Skenholmen. (No longer available online.) Länsstyrelsen i Gotlands län, archived from the original on January 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 19, 2013 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Skenholmen. (PDF; 193 kB) Länsstyrelsen Gotland, accessed on January 19, 2013 (Swedish, Natura 2000).
- Skenholmen. Länsstyrelsen Gotland, accessed January 19, 2013 (Swedish, nature reserve).
- Skenholmen. European Environment Agency, accessed on January 19, 2013 (English, Natura 2000).
- Skenholmen. In: guteinfo.com. Retrieved January 19, 2013 (Swedish).