Stora Alvaret
Stora Alvaret is an alvar, a barren limestone terrace, in the southern half of the island of Öland, Sweden. Stora Alvaret is a dagger shaped expanse almost 40 kilometres long and about 10 kilometres at the widest north end.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Plain
- Description: alvar
- Also known as: “Alvaren”, “Alvaret”, “Alvret”, and “Stora Alvret”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kastlösa and Mörbylånga.
Kastlösa
Village
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Kastlösa is a locality situated in Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 201 inhabitants in 2010. Kastlösa is situated 6 km southwest of Stora Alvaret.
Mörbylånga
Town
Mörbylånga is a locality situated on the southern part of the island of Öland and is the seat of Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 1,780 inhabitants in 2010. Mörbylånga is situated 8 km west of Stora Alvaret.
Stora Alvaret
- Categories: alvar and landform
- Location: Kalmar County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Stora Alvaret” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Stora Alvaret”
- Bulgarian: “Стура Алварет”
- Cebuano: “Stora Alvaret”
- Croatian: “Stora Alvaret”
- Danish: “Stora Alvaret”
- Dutch: “Stora Alvaret”
- French: “paysage agricole du sud d’Öland”
- French: “Stora Alvaret”
- Georgian: “სტორა-ალვარეტი”
- German: “Stora Alvaret”
- Hindi: “स्टोरा अल्वारेट”
- Hindi: “स्टोरा अल्वेट”
- Japanese: “アルヴァール”
- Japanese: “エーランド島南部の農業景観”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Alvaras”
- Maithili: “स्टोरा अल्भारेट”
- Malayalam: “സ്റ്റോറ ആൽവേർട്ട”
- Nepali: “स्टोरा अल्भारेट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stora alvaret”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stora alvaret”
- Norwegian: “Stora alvaret”
- Persian: “استورا آلوارت”
- Portuguese: “Stora alvaret”
- Portuguese: “Stora Alvaret”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stora Alvaret”
- Spanish: “Stora Alvaret”
- Swedish: “Stora alvaret”
- Turkish: “Stora Alvaret”
- Ukrainian: “Стура-Альварет”
- Vietnamese: “Thắng cảnh nông nghiệp ở nam Öland”
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