Åby petroglyphs
Åby petroglyphs is an archaeological site in Sotenäs, Västra Götaland County. Åby petroglyphs is situated nearby to the zoo Nordens Ark Lantgård, as well as near the archaeological site Åby Gånggrift.Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Petroglyphs near Nordens Ark at Åbyfjorden, Sotenäs
- Also known as: “Åby Hällristingarna” and “Åbyhällen”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Röe Castle and Bro Church.
Röe Castle
Archaeological site
Rödskojan vindskydd
Shelter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rödskojan vindskydd is a shelter, which is situated 2 km south of Åby petroglyphs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bovallstrand and Brastad.
Bovallstrand
Village
Photo: Chell Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bovallstrand is a locality situated in Sotenäs Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 474 inhabitants on December 31, 2010. Bovallstrand is situated 7 km northwest of Åby petroglyphs.
Brastad
Village
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brastad is a locality situated in Lysekil Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 1,846 inhabitants in 2010. Brastad is situated 7 km southeast of Åby petroglyphs.
Hunnebostrand
Village
Photo: Kimblad, Public domain.
Hunnebostrand is a locality situated in Sotenäs Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 1,731 inhabitants in 2010. Hunnebostrand is situated 8 km west of Åby petroglyphs.
Åby petroglyphs
- Categories: petroglyph, archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Sotenäs, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.44186° or 58° 26′ 31″ northLongitude
11.43074° or 11° 25′ 51″ eastOpen location code
9FCHCCRJ+P7OpenStreetMap ID
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historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q29811596
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In Other Languages
From Afar to Zulu—“Åby petroglyphs” goes by many names.
- Afar: “Åbyhällen”
- Afrikaans: “Åbyhällen”
- Akan: “Åbyhällen”
- Albanian: “Åbyhällen”
- Aragonese: “Åbyhällen”
- Arpitan: “Åbyhällen”
- Asturian: “Åbyhällen”
- Aymara: “Åbyhällen”
- Azerbaijani: “Åbyhällen”
- Bambara: “Åbyhällen”
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- Basque: “Åbyhällen”
- Bavarian: “Åbyhällen”
- Bislama: “Åbyhällen”
- Bosnian: “Åbyhällen”
- Brahui: “Åbyhällen”
- Breton: “Åbyhällen”
- Catalan: “Åbyhällen”
- Cebuano: “Åbyhällen”
- Central Bikol: “Åbyhällen”
- Chamorro: “Åbyhällen”
- Chavacano: “Åbyhällen”
- Cherokee: “Åbyhällen”
- Cheyenne: “Åbyhällen”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Åbyhällen”
- Choctaw: “Åbyhällen”
- Corsican: “Åbyhällen”
- Cree: “Åbyhällen”
- Creek: “Åbyhällen”
- Crimean Tatar: “Åbyhällen”
- Croatian: “Åbyhällen”
- Czech: “Åbyhällen”
- Danish: “Åbyhällen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Åbyhällen”
- Dutch: “Åbyhällen”
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Åbyhällen”
- Esperanto: “Åbyhällen”
- Estonian: “Åbyhällen”
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- Extremaduran: “Åbyhällen”
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- Fiji Hindi: “Åbyhällen”
- Fijian: “Åbyhällen”
- Finnish: “Åbyhällen”
- French: “Åbyhällen”
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- Fulah: “Åbyhällen”
- Gagauz: “Åbyhällen”
- Galician: “Åbyhällen”
- Ganda: “Åbyhällen”
- German: “Åbyhällen”
- Gheg Albanian: “Åbyhällen”
- Gothic: “Åbyhällen”
- Guarani: “Åbyhällen”
- Haitian: “Åbyhällen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Åbyhällen”
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- Hawaiian: “Åbyhällen”
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- Hiri Motu: “Åbyhällen”
- Hungarian: “Åbyhällen”
- Icelandic: “Åbyhällen”
- Ido: “Åbyhällen”
- Igbo: “Åbyhällen”
- Iloko: “Åbyhällen”
- Indonesian: “Åbyhällen”
- Interlingua: “Åbyhällen”
- Interlingue: “Åbyhällen”
- Inuktitut: “Åbyhällen”
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- Irish: “Åbyhällen”
- Italian: “Åbyhällen”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Åbyhällen”
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- Kabyle: “Åbyhällen”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Åbyhällen”
- Kalaallisut: “Åbyhällen”
- Kanuri: “Åbyhällen”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Åbyhällen”
- Kashubian: “Åbyhällen”
- Kazakh: “Åbyhällen”
- Kikuyu: “Åbyhällen”
- Kinaray-A: “Åbyhällen”
- Kinyarwanda: “Åbyhällen”
- Kölsch: “Åbyhällen”
- Kongo: “Åbyhällen”
- Kuanyama: “Åbyhällen”
- Kurdish: “Åbyhällen”
- Ladino: “Åbyhällen”
- Latgalian: “Åbyhällen”
- Latin: “Åbyhällen”
- Latvian: “Åbyhällen”
- Laz: “Åbyhällen”
- Ligurian: “Åbyhällen”
- Limburgan: “Åbyhällen”
- Lingala: “Åbyhällen”
- Lithuanian: “Åbyhällen”
- Lojban: “Åbyhällen”
- Lombard: “Åbyhällen”
- Low German: “Åbyhällen”
- Lower Silesian: “Åbyhällen”
- Lower Sorbian: “Åbyhällen”
- Lozi: “Åbyhällen”
- Lushai: “Åbyhällen”
- Luxembourgish: “Åbyhällen”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Åbyhällen”
- Mainfränkisch: “Åbyhällen”
- Malay: “Åbyhällen”
- Maltese: “Åbyhällen”
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- Mapudungun: “Åbyhällen”
- Megleno Romanian: “Åbyhällen”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Åbyhällen”
- Minangkabau: “Åbyhällen”
- Mirandese: “Åbyhällen”
- Narom: “Åbyhällen”
- Nauru: “Åbyhällen”
- Navajo: “Åbyhällen”
- Ndonga: “Åbyhällen”
- Neapolitan: “Åbyhällen”
- Northern Frisian: “Åbyhällen”
- Northern Sami: “Åbyhällen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Åbyhällen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Åbyhällen”
- Novial: “Åbyhällen”
- Nyanja: “Åbyhällen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Åbyhällen”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Åbyhällen”
- Oromo: “Åbyhällen”
- Pampanga: “Åbyhällen”
- Pangasinan: “Åbyhällen”
- Pedi: “Åbyhällen”
- Pennsylvania German: “Åbyhällen”
- Pfaelzisch: “Åbyhällen”
- Picard: “Åbyhällen”
- Piemontese: “Åbyhällen”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Åbyhällen”
- Plautdietsch: “Åbyhällen”
- Polish: “Åbyhällen”
- Portuguese: “Åbyhällen”
- Quechua: “Åbyhällen”
- Romanian: “Åbyhällen”
- Romansh: “Åbyhällen”
- Rundi: “Åbyhällen”
- Samoan: “Åbyhällen”
- Samogitian: “Åbyhällen”
- Sango: “Åbyhällen”
- Santali: “Åbyhällen”
- Sardinian: “Åbyhällen”
- Sassarese Sardinian: “Åbyhällen”
- Saterfriesisch: “Åbyhällen”
- Scots: “Åbyhällen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Åbyhällen”
- Serbian: “Åbyhällen”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Åbyhällen”
- Seri: “Åbyhällen”
- Shona: “Åbyhällen”
- Sicilian: “Åbyhällen”
- Silesian: “Åbyhällen”
- Slovak: “Åbyhällen”
- Slovenian: “Åbyhällen”
- Somali: “Åbyhällen”
- Southern Sami: “Åbyhällen”
- Southern Sotho: “Åbyhällen”
- Spanish: “Åbyhällen”
- Sranan Tongo: “Åbyhällen”
- Swahili: “Åbyhällen”
- Swedish: “Åbyhällen”
- Swedish: “Tossene 73:1”
- Swiss German: “Åbyhällen”
- Tachelhit: “Åbyhällen”
- Tagalog: “Åbyhällen”
- Tahitian: “Åbyhällen”
- Tajik: “Åbyhällen”
- Tarifit: “Åbyhällen”
- Tatar: “Åbyhällen”
- Tetum: “Åbyhällen”
- Tok Pisin: “Åbyhällen”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Åbyhällen”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Åbyhällen”
- Tsonga: “Åbyhällen”
- Tswana: “Åbyhällen”
- Tumbuka: “Åbyhällen”
- Turkish: “Åbyhällen”
- Turkmen: “Åbyhällen”
- Turoyo: “Åbyhällen”
- Uighur: “Åbyhällen”
- Upper Sorbian: “Åbyhällen”
- Uzbek: “Åbyhällen”
- Venda: “Åbyhällen”
- Venetian: “Åbyhällen”
- Veps: “Åbyhällen”
- Vietnamese: “Åbyhällen”
- Vlaams: “Åbyhällen”
- Vlax Romani: “Åbyhällen”
- Volapük: “Åbyhällen”
- Votic: “Åbyhällen”
- Walloon: “Åbyhällen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Åbyhällen”
- Welsh: “Åbyhällen”
- Western Frisian: “Åbyhällen”
- Wolof: “Åbyhällen”
- Xhosa: “Åbyhällen”
- Yoruba: “Åbyhällen”
- Zeeuws: “Åbyhällen”
- Zhuang: “Åbyhällen”
- Zulu: “Åbyhällen”
- “Åbyhällen”
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