Gotska Sandön National Park, National park on an island in Gotland Municipality, Sweden.
The park extends across 44.9 square kilometers of land, featuring extensive sand dunes, beaches, and dense pine forests in the Baltic Sea.
The national park designation occurred on May 24, 1909, making Gotska Sandön one of Sweden's first protected natural territories.
The chapel at the northwest point of the island represents traditional Swedish architecture and belongs to the Fårö parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat.
Access to Gotska Sandön requires boat transportation from Fårö Island or Nynäshamn, with services operating regularly during summer months.
The island maintains a colony of grey seals and hosts rare species including Kashubian vetch and multiple orchid varieties in its diverse ecosystem.
Location: Gotland Municipality
Inception: May 24, 1909
Website: http://sverigesnationalparker.se/park/gotska-sandons-nationalpark
GPS coordinates: 58.36631,19.24606
Latest update: March 2, 2025 23:18
Sweden stretches from southern sand beaches to forests and tundra in the north. The country preserves records from several millennia: prehistoric rock carvings, Viking burial sites, medieval fortresses, and 18th century ironworks. The coastline includes limestone cliffs, archipelago islands, and wooden piers at small fishing villages. This collection takes you to historical places like Gammelstad Church Town, where hundreds of red wooden huts surround a medieval pilgrimage center, or the Stone Ship Monument at Kåseberga, where raised stones form the outline of a Viking ship. It also includes national parks such as Skuleskogen with its spruce forests and steep coasts, ironworks like Engelsberg where charcoal blast furnaces still stand, and museums like the Hallwyl collection in Stockholm. Visitors find island fortresses, peatlands, long-distance trails through arctic regions, and villages that show Swedish life from earlier centuries.
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