Björkö nature reserve

Björkö nature reserve is a nature reserve in , . Björkö nature reserve is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near .
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: nature reserve in Ekerö municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Björkö”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birka and Björkö.

Archaeological site
, on the island of Björkö in present-day , was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient.

Island
Photo: powi, CC BY 2.0.
is an in in eastern-central . It is mostly famous for housing the excavation site populated c. AD 750-975, together with on declared a World Heritage Site in 1993.

Museum
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hovgården and Sandviken.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an archaeological site on the island of in in central-eastern . During the Viking Age, the centre of the prospering Mälaren Valley was the settlement , founded in the mid-8th century and abandoned in the late 10th century and located on the island Björkö just south of Adelsö.

Village
Photo: Nordelch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality situated in , , with 338 inhabitants in 2010.

Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, Adelsö is a village in , , southeastern .

Björkö nature reserve

Latitude
59.3156° or 59° 18′ 56″ north
Longitude
17.5675° or 17° 34′ 3″ east
Inception
July 25th, 1944
Operator
Länsstyrelsen i Stockholms län
Open location code
9FFV8H88+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 103226375
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Wiki­data ID
Q879525
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Satellite Map

Discover Björkö nature reserve from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Björkö nature reserve” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Björkö”
  • Aragonese: “Björkö”
  • Arpitan: “Björkö”
  • Asturian: “Björkö”
  • Basque: “Björkö”
  • Bavarian: “Björkö”
  • Breton: “Björkö”
  • Catalan: “Björkö”
  • Cebuano: “Björkö”
  • Chinese: “比約克島”
  • Corsican: “Björkö”
  • Croatian: “Björkö”
  • Czech: “Björkö”
  • Danish: “Björkö”
  • Danish: “Bjørkø”
  • Dutch: “Björkö”
  • Esperanto: “Björkö”
  • Estonian: “Björkö”
  • Finnish: “Björkö”
  • French: “Björkö”
  • Friulian: “Björkö”
  • Galician: “Björkö”
  • German: “Björkö”
  • Hungarian: “Björkö”
  • Icelandic: “Björkö”
  • Ido: “Björkö”
  • Indonesian: “Björkö”
  • Interlingua: “Björkö”
  • Interlingue: “Björkö”
  • Irish: “Björkö”
  • Italian: “Björkö”
  • Kongo: “Björkö”
  • Latin: “Birca insula”
  • Ligurian: “Björkö”
  • Limburgan: “Björkö”
  • Low German: “Björkö”
  • Luxembourgish: “Björkö”
  • Malagasy: “Björkö”
  • Malay: “Björkö”
  • Minangkabau: “Björkö”
  • Narom: “Björkö”
  • Neapolitan: “Björkö”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Björkö”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Björkö i Mälaren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bjørkø i Mälaren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Björkö”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Björkö”
  • Picard: “Björkö”
  • Piemontese: “Björkö”
  • Polish: “Birka (wyspa)”
  • Polish: “Björkö”
  • Portuguese: “Björkö”
  • Romanian: “Björkö”
  • Romansh: “Björkö”
  • Sardinian: “Björkö”
  • Scots: “Björkö”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Björkö”
  • Serbian: “Björkö”
  • Sicilian: “Björkö”
  • Slovak: “Björkö”
  • Slovenian: “Björkö”
  • Spanish: “Bjorko”
  • Spanish: “Björkö”
  • Swahili: “Björkö”
  • Swedish: “Björkö naturreservat, Uppland”
  • Swedish: “Björkö naturreservat”
  • Swiss German: “Björkö”
  • Venetian: “Björkö”
  • Vietnamese: “Björkö”
  • Vlaams: “Björkö”
  • Volapük: “Björkö”
  • Walloon: “Björkö”
  • Welsh: “Björkö”
  • Wolof: “Björkö”
  • Zulu: “Björkö”

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