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Stora Drammen is an uninhabited

skerry A skerry is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack. A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. They ar ...

situated northwest of the Bohuslän province of

Götaland Götaland (; also '' Geatland'', '' Gothia'', ''Gothland'', ''Gothenland'' or ''Gautland'') is one of three lands of Sweden and comprises ten provinces. Geographically it is located in the south of Sweden, bounded to the north by Svealand, wit ...

, Sweden. It is administratively part of

Strömstad Municipality Strömstad Municipality (''Strömstads kommun'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Strömstad. The municipality got its present boundaries in 1967, when the ''City of Strömstad'' ...

and represents the westernmost

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of Sweden.

Geography

Stora Drammen is located within the

Skagerrak The Skagerrak (, , ) is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the southeast coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea area through the Danish Straits to the Baltic Sea. T ...

Strait about 10 km from the nearest mainland city of

Strömstad Strömstad is a locality and the seat of Strömstad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 6,288 inhabitants in 2010. For historical reasons, Strömstad is called a ''city'' despite its small population. Strömstad became part of S ...

. It is also 2 km northwest from Nordkoster of the

Koster Islands The Koster Islands (Swedish: ''Kosteröarna'') situated 10 km west of Strömstad, Sweden, comprises an archipelago surrounding the two largest islands, South Koster and North Koster. South Koster has an area of 8 km2 and North Koster an a ...

archipelago within the

Kosterhavet National Park Kosterhavet National Park ( sv, Kosterhavets nationalpark, literally ''The Koster Sea National Park'') is the first national marine park in Sweden, inaugurated in September 2009. It is part of the Skagerrak sea and is located in Strömstad and ...

. The skerry is part of the Tjärnö district of Strömstad municipality in

Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1 ...

. Stensvik is mainland Sweden's westernmost point and located about 15 km northeast of Stora Drammen. A sea cairn is present on the skerry to mark the

Sweden-Norway border Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway ( sv, Svensk-norska unionen; no, Den svensk-norske union(en)), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and known as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden ...

, with the border with Norway's

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side ...

region running only a few hundred meters north of it.

History

From the early 19th century, the Grisbådarna area within the Skagerrak Strait was subjected to a maritime

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between Sweden and Norway. The

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The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

established the border on October 23, 1909 and awarded Grisbådarna to Sweden.

References

External links

Äldre bild över området (1901, Svenska turistföreningens årsskrift)

Karta över området (s 201, Naturvårdsverket)
Extreme points of Sweden Islands of Västra Götaland County {{VästraGötaland-geo-stub