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Natural history

Kungseken (the Royal Oak)

  • Municipality: Stockholms stad
  • 6840.74 km away from you

Kungseken (the Royal Oak) line the road of Djurgårdsvägen/Manillavägen. Djurgården has northern Europe’s largest collection of ancient oaks, which are almost 500 years old. The oaks play a key role in the biological diversity of the park. An old oak can har…

Archaeological

Kaknäs

  • Municipality: Stockholms stad
  • 6839.91 km away from you

Kaknäs was a medieval village with land that covered a large part of Ladugårdsgärdet. The burial ground west of the road tells us that people were already living here in the Late Iron Age (550-1050 AD). The Kaknästornet tower was built in 1964-1967 for the…

Valuable nature

Pausklippa på Rävnäset

  • Municipality: Tyresö
  • 6853.81 km away from you

Take a break on the hillside and look out over Lake Albysjön. You are now on Rävnäset, a peninsula in Alby nature reserve. The land has been farmed here since the 18th century - probably even earlier - and the nature consists largely of beautiful deciduous…

Culture

Naturstigen: Markering 2

  • Municipality: Ekerö
  • 6827.66 km away from you

When you're halfway across the field, you'll see a large oak tree in the field a bit away. It is about ten meters in circumference, but there are even bigger ones out on Gällstaö. At the top of this oak there used to be an osprey nest. You can still see the…

Culture

Kvarnfallet

  • Municipality: Norrtälje
  • 6836.40 km away from you

The small waterfall Kvarnfallet. There was once a mill here and in the valley below the road the waterway went towards Norrtäljeviken.

Natural history

Klämmesudden klapperstensfält, Väddö

  • Municipality: Norrtälje

A natural monument consisting of a field of coarse shingle. Väddö is known for its shingle fields, which are formed by round rocks ground by the waves of the sea. These fields are a result of the uplifting of the land after the ice age and the fact that for…

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