• Helveteskällan är en av landets största jättegrytor.
    Helveteskällan är en av landets största jättegrytor.
    Photo: Länsstyrelsen Stockholm
  • Grytans svarta vatten är nästan magiskt lockande.
    Grytans svarta vatten är nästan magiskt lockande.
    Photo: Karin Karlsson

Helveteskällan, Öja–Landsort

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Helveteskällan ("The Hell spring") is 2.4 m wide and 3.5 m deep, making it one of the largest giant's kettles in the country. The kettle may have been a sacred spring for people in olden times; coins from the 1400s were found here when the kettle was drained in the early 1900s.

Giant's kettles like this one formed during the Ice Age. Water currents under the glacier rotated stones which then eroded the bedrock, forming a deep hole. There are several giant's kettles of varying size in the area.

Mind your step! The path is steep and can be slippery.

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Facts

Protected since: 1985

Size: 570 hectares of which land 178 hectares

Character: archipelago, deciduous forest, cultural environment

Municipality: Nynäshamn

Landowner: the state

Administrator: County Administrative Board

Form of protection : nature conservation area

Directions

Follow the path from the designated campsite through the pasture. Parts of the trail are very steep, climb carefully!

Regulations

In order to protect the Öja-Landsort nature reserve, please respect the following rules.

Within the reserve, it is forbidden to:

  1. destroy or damage permanent natural structures,
  2. pick flowers of the lesser butterfly-orchid,
  3. break branches or fell trees,
  4. bring dogs that are not on a leash,
  5. deliberately disturb wildlife,
  6. camp or make a fire outside of designated sites.

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