Åland
Countryside
Sund

Prästö

Prästö is an island in the municipality of in , . It is connected to the by the Bomarsund Bridge crossing the narrow Bomarsund Strait.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Sund, Åland, Finland
  • Also known as: “Island of the Dead”, “Praestoe”, “Prästö, Åland”, “Prestö”, and “Priest Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bomarsund.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vårdö.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a municipality in , on the northern route between mainland Åland and mainland Finland. It was on the Great Post Route between Stockholm and Turku.

Prästö

Latitude
60.21421° or 60° 12′ 51″ north
Longitude
20.26252° or 20° 15′ 45″ east
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
9GG26777+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24209406
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
640824
Wiki­data ID
Q21974079
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Prästö” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Prästö (pulo sa Aland Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Prästö”
  • Finnish: “Prästö”
  • Japanese: “プラスト”
  • Swedish: “De dödas ö”
  • Swedish: “Prästö, Sund”
  • Swedish: “Prästö”
  • Turkish: “Prästö”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Orthodox graveyard and Protestant graveyard.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Prästö”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 dk.