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Femöre battery

Femöre battery is a facility previously operated by the Swedish Coastal Artillery arm of Swedish Armed Forces. Also known as "Battery OD", it is located only a short trip south-east of on the east coast, and is blasted into the rock on the Femöre peninsula.
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: coastal artillery fort and museum, was part of a series of similar facilities built in the 1960‘s and 1970’s as a defence against potential attacks from the Soviet Union.
  • Also known as: “Battery OD”, “Femore”, “Femöre Coastal Artillery Battery”, and “Femörefortet”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Botvid Church and Femörehuvud lighthouse.

Church
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Lighthouse
Photo: Sören T Eriksson, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stjärnholm and Arnö.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Suburb
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is a locality situated in , Södermanland County, with 3,871 inhabitants in 2010. is situated 9 km northwest of Femöre battery.

Village
is a locality situated in , Södermanland County, with 225 inhabitants in 2010. is situated 9 km west of Femöre battery.

Femöre battery

Latitude
58.6601° or 58° 39′ 36″ north
Longitude
17.10304° or 17° 6′ 11″ east
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Inception
May 31st, 2006
Open location code
9FCVM463+26
Open­Street­Map ID
way 102881817
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Geo­Names ID
2715157
Wiki­data ID
Q3366184
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Femöre battery” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Femöre”
  • Danish: “Batteri OD”
  • Danish: “Femöre fort”
  • Danish: “Femörefortet”
  • Danish: “Femørefortet”
  • Dutch: “Femöre fort”
  • Dutch: “Femöre Fort”
  • Dutch: “Femorefort”
  • Dutch: “Femörefort”
  • Finnish: “Femörefortet”
  • Finnish: “Femören linnake”
  • French: “fort de Femöre”
  • French: “Fort de Femöre”
  • German: “Femöre Festung”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Batteri OD”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Femörefortet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Femörefortet”
  • Norwegian: “Femöre”
  • Norwegian: “Femøre”
  • Norwegian: “Femörefortet”
  • Russian: “Battery OD”
  • Russian: “Femörefortet”
  • Russian: “Батарея береговой артиллерии Фемёре”
  • Swedish: “Batteri OD”
  • Swedish: “Femöre fort”
  • Swedish: “Femörefortet”

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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 “Femöre battery”. Photo: TommyG, CC BY-SA 4.0.