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title="Eowland – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Eowland" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF" title="أولاند – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="أولاند" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eland" title="Eland – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Eland" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Эланд – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Эланд" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Элянд – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Элянд" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Йоланд – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Йоланд" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land_(pulo_sa_Sweden,_lat_56,98,_long_16,83)" title="Öland (pulo sa Sweden, lat 56,98, long 16,83) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Öland (pulo sa Sweden, lat 56,98, long 16,83)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98land" title="Øland – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Øland" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%88%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84" title="Έλαντ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Έλαντ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olandia" title="Olandia – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Olandia" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF" title="اولاند – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اولاند" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%80%EB%9E%80%EB%93%9C%EC%84%AC" title="욀란드섬 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="욀란드섬" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4_(%D5%AF%D5%B2%D5%A6%D5%AB)" title="Էլանդ (կղզի) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Էլանդ (կղզի)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Эланд – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Эланд" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyland" title="Eyland – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Eyland" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93" title="אלנד – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אלנד" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%98" title="ელანდი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ელანდი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olandia" title="Olandia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Olandia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92lande" title="Ēlande – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ēlande" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elandas" title="Elandas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Elandas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Еланд – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Еланд" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E5%B3%B6" title="エーランド島 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="エーランド島" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96land" title="Öland – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Öland" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" 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.infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Öland</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">Historical province</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style 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class="nowrap"> </span>(31 December 2024)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">26,892</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">20/km<sup>2</sup> (52/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+01:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sweden_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Öland is located in Sweden"><img alt="Öland is located in Sweden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sweden_location_map.svg/260px-Sweden_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="567" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sweden_location_map.svg/390px-Sweden_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sweden_location_map.svg/520px-Sweden_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="842" data-file-height="1837" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:88.66%;left:44.134%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Öland"><img alt="Öland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" 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(85.1 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Width</th><td class="infobox-data">16 km (9.9 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation</th><td class="infobox-data">55 m (180 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest point</th><td class="infobox-data">Högsrum</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Administration</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">County</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kalmar_County" title="Kalmar County">Kalmar County</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Municipality</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Borgholm_Municipality" title="Borgholm Municipality">Borgholm Municipality</a> and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6rbyl%C3%A5nga_Municipality" title="Mörbylånga Municipality">Mörbylånga Municipality</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest settlement</th><td class="infobox-data">Färjestaden (pop. 5 018 inv.)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Demographics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Demonym</th><td class="infobox-data">Ölandish</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">25,846 (2016)<sup id="cite_ref-population_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-population-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pop. density</th><td class="infobox-data">18.63/km<sup>2</sup> (48.25/sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnic groups</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Swedish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish people">Swedish</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #8DE3D2; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Ramsar_Convention" title="Ramsar Convention">Ramsar Wetland</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Öland, eastern coastal areas</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">5 December 1974</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">18<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Öland</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small"><a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">UK</a>: </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></span>/</a></span></span>, <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/Sv-%C3%96land.ogg/Sv-%C3%96land.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Sv-%C3%96land.ogg" title="File:Sv-Öland.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span>; sometimes written <i><b>Oland</b></i> internationally) is the second-largest <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Sweden" title="List of islands of Sweden">Swedish island</a> and the smallest of the traditional <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">provinces of Sweden</a>. Öland has an area of 1,342 square kilometres (518 square miles) and is located in the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> just off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Sm%C3%A5land" title="Småland">Småland</a>. The island has over 26,000 inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-population_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-population-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is separated from the mainland by the <a href="/wiki/Kalmar_Strait" title="Kalmar Strait">Kalmar Strait</a> and connected to it by the <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>6-kilometre (<span class="frac">3<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> mi) <a href="/wiki/%C3%96land_Bridge" title="Öland Bridge">Öland Bridge</a>, which opened on 30 September 1972. The county seat <a href="/wiki/Kalmar" title="Kalmar">Kalmar</a> is on the mainland at the other end of the bridge and is an important commercial centre related to the Öland economy. The island's two municipalities are <a href="/wiki/Borgholm_Municipality" title="Borgholm Municipality">Borgholm</a> and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6rbyl%C3%A5nga_Municipality" title="Mörbylånga Municipality">Mörbylånga</a> named after their municipal seats. Much of the island is farmland, with fertile plains aided by the mild and sunny weather during summer. </p><p>Öland does not have separate political representation at the national level, and is <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Sweden" title="Politics of Sweden">fully integrated into Sweden</a> as part of <a href="/wiki/Kalmar_County" title="Kalmar County">Kalmar County</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The traditional <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">provinces of Sweden</a> no longer serve administrative or political purposes but still exist as historical and cultural entities. Öland is part of the administrative <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Sweden" title="Counties of Sweden">county</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kalmar_County" title="Kalmar County">Kalmar County</a> (<i>Kalmar län</i>) and consists of the two <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Sweden" title="Municipalities of Sweden">municipalities</a> of <a href="/wiki/Borgholm_Municipality" title="Borgholm Municipality">Borgholm Municipality</a> and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6rbyl%C3%A5nga_Municipality" title="Mörbylånga Municipality">Mörbylånga Municipality</a>. There was an <a href="/wiki/%C3%96land_County" title="Öland County">Öland County</a> in the short period between 1819 and 1826; otherwise, the island has been part of Kalmar County since 1634.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Heraldry">Heraldry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Heraldry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_%C3%96land" title="Coat of arms of Öland">Coat of arms of Öland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%96land_vapen.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/%C3%96land_vapen.svg/150px-%C3%96land_vapen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/%C3%96land_vapen.svg/225px-%C3%96land_vapen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/%C3%96land_vapen.svg/300px-%C3%96land_vapen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="251" data-file-height="304" /></a><figcaption>Coat of arms and flag of Öland, used since 1555</figcaption></figure> <p>Öland was granted provincial arms in 1560, but it would not be until the 1940s that the province was assigned its proper ones. The arms granted to <i>Öland</i> had been mixed up with the arms granted to <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%85land" title="Åland">Åland</a></i> and this was not discovered until the 20th century. While Öland changed its coat of arms, Åland, which was now a <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finnish</a> (autonomous) province, kept its established but originally unintended coat of arms. The deer is meant to symbolize the status of Öland as a royal <a href="/wiki/Game_reserve" title="Game reserve">game park</a> and the arms are topped by a ducal crown. Blazon: "Azure a Deer Or attired, hoofed and gorged Gules".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg/240px-%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg/360px-%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg/480px-%C3%96land_Gettlinge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="590" data-file-height="394" /></a><figcaption>Iron Age burial ground at Gettlinge</figcaption></figure> <p>Archaeological evidence indicates the island of Öland was settled about 8000 BC, with excavations dating from the <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a> era showing the presence of <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early <a href="/wiki/Stone_Age" title="Stone Age">Stone Age</a>, <a href="/wiki/Settler" title="Settler">settlers</a> from the mainland migrated across the <a href="/wiki/Ice_bridge" title="Ice bridge">ice bridge</a> that connected the island across the <a href="/wiki/Kalmar_Strait" title="Kalmar Strait">Kalmar Strait</a>. </p><p>Evidence of habitation of Öland occurred at least as early as 6000 BC, when there were Stone Age settlements at <a href="/wiki/Alby,_%C3%96land" title="Alby, Öland">Alby</a> and other locations on the island. Burial grounds from the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a> are clearly visible at <a href="/wiki/Gettlinge" title="Gettlinge">Gettlinge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hulterstad" title="Hulterstad">Hulterstad</a> and other places on the perimeter ridge including <a href="/wiki/Stone_ship" title="Stone ship">stone ships</a>. There are nineteen Iron Age <a href="/wiki/Ringfort" title="Ringfort">ringforts</a> identified on the island, only one of which, <a href="/wiki/Eketorp" title="Eketorp">Eketorp</a>, has been completely excavated, yielding over 24,000 artifacts. Around 900 AD, <a href="/wiki/Wulfstan_of_Hedeby" title="Wulfstan of Hedeby">Wulfstan of Hedeby</a> called the island "Eowland", the land of the Eowans: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Then, after the <a href="/wiki/Bornholm" title="Bornholm">land of the Burgundians</a>, we had on our left the lands that have been called from the earliest times <a href="/wiki/Blekinge" title="Blekinge">Blekingey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6re" title="Möre">Meore</a>, and Eowland, and <a href="/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotland</a>, all which territory is subject to the <a href="/wiki/Suiones" class="mw-redirect" title="Suiones">Sweons</a>; and Weonodland [the land of the <a href="/wiki/Wends" title="Wends">Wends</a>] was all the way on our right, as far as <a href="/wiki/Vistula" title="Vistula">Weissel</a>-mouth.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>However, this is not the first mention of the Eowans. There is an even earlier mention of the tribe in the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon literature">Anglo-Saxon</a> <a href="/wiki/Poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Poem">poem</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Widsith" title="Widsith">Widsith</a></i>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Oswin ruled the Eowans<br /> and Gefwulf the <a href="/wiki/Jutes" title="Jutes">Jutes</a>,<br /> <a href="/wiki/Finn_(Frisian)" title="Finn (Frisian)">Finn Folcwalding</a><br /> The <a href="/wiki/Frisians" title="Frisians">Frisian</a> clan.<br /> <a href="/wiki/Sigar" title="Sigar">Sigar</a> longest<br /> ruled the sea-<a href="/wiki/Danes_(ancient_people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Danes (ancient people)">Danes</a> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Scholars such as Schütte<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Kendrick<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have pointed out that there was probably an even earlier mention of the people of Öland in 98 AD, by <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, who called them the "<a href="/wiki/Aviones" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviones">Aviones</a>": </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Lombards" title="Lombards">Langobardi</a> come the <a href="/wiki/Reudigni" title="Reudigni">Reudigni</a>, Auiones, <a href="/wiki/Angli" class="mw-redirect" title="Angli">Angli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warini" title="Warini">Warini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eudoses" class="mw-redirect" title="Eudoses">Eudoses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suarines" title="Suarines">Suarines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nuithones" title="Nuithones">Nuithones</a> all well guarded by rivers and forests. There is nothing remarkable about any of these tribes unless the common worship of <a href="/wiki/Nerthus" title="Nerthus">Nerthus</a>, that is Earth Mother, is considered. They believed she was interested in men's affairs and walked among them. On an island in the ocean sea there is a sacred grove where a holy wagon covered by a drape awaits.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In Swedish history, the island long served as a royal game park; <a href="/wiki/Ottenby" title="Ottenby">Ottenby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Halltorp" title="Halltorp">Halltorp</a> were in particular selected by the Swedish Crown in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> as royal game reserves.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:224px;max-width:224px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg/220px-%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="549" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg/330px-%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg/440px-%C3%96land_Municipal_centres.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="131" data-file-height="327" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Map of Öland</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Homrevet,_Northern_%C3%96land,_Sweden.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Homrevet%2C_Northern_%C3%96land%2C_Sweden.JPG/220px-Homrevet%2C_Northern_%C3%96land%2C_Sweden.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Homrevet%2C_Northern_%C3%96land%2C_Sweden.JPG/330px-Homrevet%2C_Northern_%C3%96land%2C_Sweden.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Homrevet%2C_Northern_%C3%96land%2C_Sweden.JPG/440px-Homrevet%2C_Northern_%C3%96land%2C_Sweden.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Homrevet, Northern Öland</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Öland is the second largest of the <a href="/wiki/Islands_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Islands of Sweden">islands of Sweden</a> and was historically divided into one <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Cities of Sweden">chartered city</a> and five <a href="/wiki/Hundreds_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Hundreds of Sweden">hundreds</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities_and_villages">Cities and villages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cities and villages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alby,_%C3%96land" title="Alby, Öland">Alby</a></li> <li>Bläsinge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borgholm" title="Borgholm">Borgholm</a> (1816)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A5rdby" title="Gårdby">Gårdby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gettlinge" title="Gettlinge">Gettlinge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eriks%C3%B6re" title="Eriksöre">Eriksöre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fagerum" title="Fagerum">Fagerum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A4rjestaden" title="Färjestaden">Färjestaden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulterstad" title="Hulterstad">Hulterstad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6pingsvik" title="Köpingsvik">Köpingsvik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6rbyl%C3%A5nga" title="Mörbylånga">Mörbylånga</a></li> <li>Norra Möckleby</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%96jkroken" title="Öjkroken">Öjkroken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottenby" title="Ottenby">Ottenby</a></li> <li>Seby</li> <li>Segerstad</li> <li>Södra Sandby</li> <li>Stenåsa</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hundreds">Hundreds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Hundreds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%85kerbo_Hundred" class="mw-redirect" title="Åkerbo Hundred">Åkerbo Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algutsrum_Hundred" title="Algutsrum Hundred">Algutsrum Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%A4sg%C3%A5rd_Hundred" class="mw-redirect" title="Gräsgård Hundred">Gräsgård Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6ckleby_Hundred" class="mw-redirect" title="Möckleby Hundred">Möckleby Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runsten_Hundred" class="mw-redirect" title="Runsten Hundred">Runsten Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sl%C3%A4ttbo_Hundred" class="mw-redirect" title="Slättbo Hundred">Slättbo Hundred</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Facts">Facts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Facts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Highest Hill: Högsrum, 55 m (180 ft)</li> <li>Largest lake: Hornsjön<sup id="cite_ref-kort_fakta_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kort_fakta-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Length: 137 km (85 mi)</li> <li>Width (at widest point): 16 km (10 mi)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Öland has a semi-continental <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic climate</a> with considerable temperature differences between summer and winter. There are two main weather stations, one located at the northern edge and the other at the southern edge. In spite of the more northerly latitude, Öland's northern edge is far milder than its southern edge, since air warm over greater surrounding landmasses during days, whilst retaining heavy maritime features during night. It is also more representative for the island's general climate, with only the deep south being much cooler down a narrow peninsula. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Öland's Northern Edge, temperature 2002–2021; sunshine June 2008–2018; extremes since 1901 </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFD3A8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8<br />(51.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA75; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.5<br />(58.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.3<br />(63.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF7D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.3<br />(73.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF5900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.5<br />(83.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.0<br />(89.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.5<br />(88.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.0<br />(87.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.6<br />(79.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCA96; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.1<br />(53.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">32.0<br />(89.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFEAD5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.5<br />(45.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC184; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.4<br />(56.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.5<br />(63.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF8205; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.6<br />(72.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF6500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.8<br />(80.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.9<br />(80.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8001; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.9<br />(73.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFA954; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.9<br />(62.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4C9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4<br />(47.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF5400; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">29.2<br />(84.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(36.7) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(36.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF9F3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.3<br />(41.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.3<br />(48.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA76; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.4<br />(57.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9327; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.1<br />(68.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.7<br />(72.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFA347; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.8<br />(64.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6<br />(52.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4<br />(45.3) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3<br />(39.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(33.6) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8<br />(33.4) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(37.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFF2E6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.3<br />(43.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6<br />(52.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9934; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.2<br />(66.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9C39; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.8<br />(65.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.1<br />(59.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFDBB8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.6<br />(49.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF6ED; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.8<br />(42.4) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(37.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFDEBE; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">9.2<br />(48.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.9<br />(30.4) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.1<br />(30.0) </td> <td style="background: #E8E8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3<br />(32.5) </td> <td style="background: #F8F8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.3<br />(37.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC790; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.5<br />(54.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.6<br />(60.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB367; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.5<br />(59.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC993; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.3<br />(54.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFE9D4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.6<br />(45.7) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.2<br />(39.6) </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.2<br />(34.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFF1E3; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.5<br />(43.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.0<br />(21.2) </td> <td style="background: #C5C5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.1<br />(21.0) </td> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.5<br />(23.9) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.5<br />(31.1) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.1<br />(37.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4C9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4<br />(47.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFCA96; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.1<br />(53.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8<br />(53.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4CA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3<br />(46.9) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(36.7) </td> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.8<br />(30.6) </td> <td style="background: #D1D1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.9<br />(25.0) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−8.1<br />(17.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #6262FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−24.5<br />(−12.1) </td> <td style="background: #4F4FFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−28.0<br />(−18.4) </td> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−25.2<br />(−13.4) </td> <td style="background: #9B9BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−14.0<br />(6.8) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.0<br />(28.4) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.1<br />(35.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE5CC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.2<br />(46.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE5CC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.2<br />(46.8) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.2<br />(37.8) </td> <td style="background: #D9D9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.5<br />(27.5) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−7.0<br />(19.4) </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−13.8<br />(7.2) </td> <td style="background: #4F4FFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−28.0<br />(−18.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #D4FFD4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.8<br />(1.13) </td> <td style="background: #DFFFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.4<br />(0.76) </td> <td style="background: #E0FFE0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.8<br />(0.82) </td> <td style="background: #E6FFE6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.2<br />(0.64) </td> <td style="background: #DBFFDB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.6<br />(0.93) </td> <td style="background: #C7FFC7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.3<br />(1.43) </td> <td style="background: #ADFFAD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.7<br />(2.15) </td> <td style="background: #B4FFB4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.9<br />(1.96) </td> <td style="background: #DCFFDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.7<br />(0.89) </td> <td style="background: #BFFFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42.8<br />(1.69) </td> <td style="background: #C2FFC2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39.3<br />(1.55) </td> <td style="background: #D0FFD0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.5<br />(1.24) </td> <td style="background: #CEFFCE; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">386<br />(15.19) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #474747; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39 </td> <td style="background: #727272; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">57 </td> <td style="background: #CBCB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">166 </td> <td style="background: #E5E500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">254 </td> <td style="background: #F3F318; color:#000000;" class="notheme">323 </td> <td style="background: #F6F61D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">322 </td> <td style="background: #F1F113; color:#000000;" class="notheme">315 </td> <td style="background: #E6E600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">263 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">188 </td> <td style="background: #A4A4A4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">90 </td> <td style="background: #4F4F4F; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">42 </td> <td style="background: #3C3C3C; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">33 </td> <td style="background: #D0D000; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">2,092 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: SMHI Open Data for Ölands norra udde, temperature<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: SMHI Open Data for Ölands norra udde, precipitation<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Öland's Southern Edge (2002-2020; precipitation 1961-1990; extremes since 1937) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFDAB5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.8<br />(49.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4CA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3<br />(46.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC78F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.6<br />(54.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B18; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.2<br />(70.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.7<br />(78.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.7<br />(83.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.9<br />(82.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.5<br />(79.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.5<br />(63.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFC285; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.3<br />(55.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD5AC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.5<br />(50.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">28.7<br />(83.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(37.0) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.4<br />(36.3) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3<br />(39.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0<br />(46.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCA96; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.1<br />(53.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC59; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.5<br />(61.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.4<br />(66.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF952C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.8<br />(67.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFA851; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.1<br />(62.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8<br />(53.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFF9F3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.3<br />(41.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4AA; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">10.6<br />(51.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3<br />(34.3) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(33.6) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.5<br />(36.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFF6ED; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.8<br />(42.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9<br />(49.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA76; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.4<br />(57.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.0<br />(62.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.5<br />(63.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFB76F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.9<br />(58.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0<br />(50.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFF0E2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.6<br />(43.9) </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.5<br />(38.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C5; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">8.7<br />(47.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #E5E5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.2<br />(31.6) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.5<br />(31.1) </td> <td style="background: #E9E9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.6<br />(33.1) </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.5<br />(38.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFE9D4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.6<br />(45.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC892; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.4<br />(54.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFB76F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.9<br />(58.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.2<br />(59.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.8<br />(55.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFFAF6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.1<br />(41.2) </td> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.8<br />(35.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.8<br />(44.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−23.0<br />(−9.4) </td> <td style="background: #7878FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−20.4<br />(−4.7) </td> <td style="background: #7575FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−20.9<br />(−5.6) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−8.7<br />(16.3) </td> <td style="background: #DFDFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.3<br />(29.7) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(37.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE7D0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9<br />(46.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFF1E4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.4<br />(43.5) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.5<br />(36.5) </td> <td style="background: #D0D0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.2<br />(24.4) </td> <td style="background: #B5B5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−9.2<br />(15.4) </td> <td style="background: #9090FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−15.9<br />(3.4) </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−23.0<br />(−9.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #CDFFCD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33<br />(1.3) </td> <td style="background: #D7FFD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(0.9) </td> <td style="background: #D9FFD9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25<br />(1.0) </td> <td style="background: #DAFFDA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(0.9) </td> <td style="background: #D6FFD6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(1.1) </td> <td style="background: #D0FFD0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30<br />(1.2) </td> <td style="background: #C1FFC1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(1.6) </td> <td style="background: #C4FFC4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39<br />(1.5) </td> <td style="background: #BFFFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(1.6) </td> <td style="background: #CAFFCA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(1.4) </td> <td style="background: #BCFFBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(1.7) </td> <td style="background: #C7FFC7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37<br />(1.5) </td> <td style="background: #CCFFCC; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">400<br />(15.7) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: SMHI<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: SMHI Monthly Data 2002-2015<sup id="cite_ref-eather2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eather2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Environment">Environment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Environment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Olandeketorp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Olandeketorp.jpg/220px-Olandeketorp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Olandeketorp.jpg/330px-Olandeketorp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Olandeketorp.jpg/440px-Olandeketorp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2585" data-file-height="1769" /></a><figcaption>Stora Alvaret on southeast of Öland with Eketorp Fortress in background</figcaption></figure> <p>The dominant environmental feature of the island is the <a href="/wiki/Stora_Alvaret" title="Stora Alvaret">Stora Alvaret</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Alvar" title="Alvar">limestone pavement</a> which is the <a href="/wiki/Habitat_(ecology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Habitat (ecology)">habitat</a> of numerous <a href="/wiki/Rare_species" title="Rare species">rare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Endangered_species" title="Endangered species">endangered species</a>. The first known scientific study of the <a href="/wiki/Biota_(ecology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Biota (ecology)">biota</a> of the Stora Alvaret occurred in the year 1741 with the visit of <a href="/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus" title="Carl Linnaeus">Linnaeus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The underlying bedrock layer is mainly <a href="/wiki/Cambrian" title="Cambrian">Cambrian</a> <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a> and alum <a href="/wiki/Chert" title="Chert">chert</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ordovician" title="Ordovician">Ordovician</a> <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> that dates from an approximate range of 540 to 450 million years ago. The Cambrian <a href="/wiki/Trilobite" title="Trilobite">trilobite</a> <i>Eccaparadoxides oelandicus</i> is named after the island.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Öland is served by a perimeter highway, <a href="/wiki/Route_136_(%C3%96land,_Sweden)" class="mw-redirect" title="Route 136 (Öland, Sweden)">Route 136</a>. In 2011 the Gripen Gas company filed a request for test drilling on Öland for natural gas. The request was approved by Bergsstaten, the governmental agency responsible for handling geological issues regarding prospecting. The approval has been met with criticism on the municipal and county administrative levels, citing that the many cracks in the limestone bedrock could cause the groundwater to become contaminated by the gas prospecting.<sup id="cite_ref-ETC_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ETC-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Important_Bird_Area">Important Bird Area</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Important Bird Area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The eastern coast of Öland, including its grazed meadows, marshes, chalk cliffs and sandbanks, has been designated an 30,000 ha <a href="/wiki/Important_Bird_Area" title="Important Bird Area">Important Bird Area</a> (IBA) by <a href="/wiki/BirdLife_International" title="BirdLife International">BirdLife International</a> because it supports a suite of <a href="/wiki/Waterfowl" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterfowl">waterfowl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wader" title="Wader">waders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tern" title="Tern">terns</a>, as well as breeding <a href="/wiki/White-tailed_sea-eagle" class="mw-redirect" title="White-tailed sea-eagle">white-tailed sea-eagles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bli_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bli-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_%C3%96land" title="Culture of Öland">Culture of Öland</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Borgholm_Castle" title="Borgholm Castle">Borgholm Castle</a> was built between 1669 and 1681 for Queen <a href="/wiki/Hedwig_Eleonora_of_Holstein-Gottorp" title="Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp">Hedvig Eleonora</a>, and designed by <a href="/wiki/Nicodemus_Tessin_the_Elder" title="Nicodemus Tessin the Elder">Nicodemus Tessin the Elder</a>. In its vicinity sits the <a href="/wiki/Solliden_Palace" title="Solliden Palace">Solliden Palace</a>, summer home to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Bernadotte" title="House of Bernadotte">royal family</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Limestone_pavement" title="Limestone pavement">limestone pavement</a> habitat of southern Öland, known as <a href="/wiki/Stora_Alvaret" title="Stora Alvaret">Stora Alvaret</a>, has been entered as a site of the <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage" class="mw-redirect" title="World Heritage">World Heritage</a> program.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Features of this are the many <a href="/wiki/Rare_species" title="Rare species">rare species</a> found; <a href="/wiki/Prehistory" title="Prehistory">prehistory</a> sites such as <a href="/wiki/Gettlinge" title="Gettlinge">Gettlinge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eketorp" title="Eketorp">Eketorp</a>; numerous old wooden <a href="/wiki/Windmill" title="Windmill">windmills</a> left standing, some of which date to the 17th century; and the special geological <a href="/wiki/Alvar" title="Alvar">alvar</a> landscape. </p><p>For a decade, Öland has been organizing an annual harvest festival called <i>Skördefesten</i> that takes place every October. In terms of this event, the island's <a href="/wiki/Farmer" title="Farmer">farmers</a> gather with farmers from the rest of the country and sell their crops and let those that are interested take part in everyday life on their farms, among other activities. There are also many art exhibitions for display during Skördefesten especially during the art night Konstnatten. </p><p>The romantic poet <a href="/wiki/Erik_Johan_Stagnelius" title="Erik Johan Stagnelius">Erik Johan Stagnelius</a> was born in the Öland parish of Gärdslösa in 1793 and lived there until 16 years of age. He wrote several poems about the island. More modern writers living on or writing about Öland include novelist Margit Friberg (1904–1997), poet Anna Rydstedt (1928–1994), novelist <a href="/wiki/Birgitta_Trotzig" title="Birgitta Trotzig">Birgitta Trotzig</a> (1929-2011), poet Lennart Sjögren (1930-), children novelist <a href="/wiki/Eva_Bexell" title="Eva Bexell">Eva Bexell</a> (1945-), poet Tom Hedlund (1945-), novelist <a href="/wiki/Johan_Theorin" title="Johan Theorin">Johan Theorin</a> (1963-), poet and novelist Magnus Utvik (1964-) and novelist Per Planhammar (1965-).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Skördefest"><span id="Sk.C3.B6rdefest"></span>Skördefest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Skördefest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Skördefest is an annual <a href="/wiki/Harvest" title="Harvest">harvest</a> festival on Öland, held every September, which attracts thousands of visitors. Pumpkins are placed upon the top of bales of hay, a signal to buyers that fall harvest goods are available for sale at the location. In Borgholm, a <i>pumpagubbe</i> (pumpkin man), a large scarecrow like figure, built entirely of gourds, is erected at town center. The pumpagubbe celebrates the bounty of the Fall Harvest.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Football in the province is administered by <a href="/wiki/Sm%C3%A5lands_Fotbollf%C3%B6rbund" title="Smålands Fotbollförbund">Smålands Fotbollförbund</a>. Each year the King's Rally, a vintage motorcade, takes place in Öland.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alby,_%C3%96land" title="Alby, Öland">Alby, Öland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gettlinge" title="Gettlinge">Gettlinge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halltorp" title="Halltorp">Halltorp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_on_%C3%96land" title="List of places on Öland">List of places on Öland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottenby" title="Ottenby">Ottenby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandby_borg" title="Sandby borg">Sandby borg</a>, a site where a <a href="/wiki/Ringfort" title="Ringfort">ringfort</a> and Roman artifacts have been found</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Battles">Battles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%96land&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Battles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_%C3%96land_(1563)" title="Battle of Öland (1563)">Battle of Öland (1563)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_battle_of_%C3%96land_(1564)" title="First battle of Öland (1564)">First battle of Öland (1564)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_%C3%96land" title="Battle of Öland">Battle of Öland</a> (1676)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_%C3%96land_(1789)" title="Battle of Öland (1789)">Battle of Öland (1789)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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