Eckerö
Eckerö is a scattered village and an island, regarded as part of mainland Åland. It is the port for the Eckerö Line, the shortest crossing from Sweden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eckerö Mail and Customs House and Eckerö hall.
Eckerö Mail and Customs House
Museum
Photo: Godewind, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Eckerö Mail and Customs House is a historic building in Eckerö municipality in Åland, Finland. It was built in 1828 as the most western posthouse on the Finnish side of the old mail route connecting Swedish capital Stockholm and Finnish town Turku.
St Lawrence’s Church, Eckerö
Church
Photo: Puppe100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Lawrence's Church, located in Eckerö on the Åland Islands, is a medieval Lutheran stone church. The church represents a significant example of medieval ecclesiastical architecture in the Baltic region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Storby and Berghamn.
Berghamn
Hamlet
Photo: Erik Wannee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berghamn is the westernmost ferry harbour of the autonomous Finnish territory Åland, in the Archipelago Sea within the Baltic Sea. Berghamn is situated on the island of Eckerö.
Eckerö
- Type: Municipality with 942 residents
- Also known as: “Eckeroe”
- Category: locality
- Location: Countryside, Åland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.2233° or 60° 13′ 24″ northLongitude
19.5508° or 19° 33′ 3″ eastPopulation
942Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
9FGX6HF2+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 10996665280OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
3041809
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Eckerö” goes by many names.
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