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Hyppeln
Hyppeln is a Swedish island in the archipelago of Gothenburg, part of Öckerö Municipality. It is about long. "Hyppeln" is also the name of the village on the island, which has about 150 permanent residents. There is a shop and a guest harbour on the island. External linksHyppelns IK References Islands of Västra Götaland County Populated places in Västra Götaland County Öckerö Municipality {{Sweden-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Öckerö Municipality
Öckerö Municipality () is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Öckerö on the main island, which is also called Öckerö. The municipality consists of islands in the Northern Gothenburg Archipelago just outside Gothenburg. With a total area of 26.03 km2 it is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden. The municipality is one of very few in Sweden which has not been municipal amalgamation, amalgamated and thus still has the same area as the unit formed out of a parish (''socken'') by the first local government acts of 1862. In the period 1915–1959 there were a number of ''municipalsamhällen'' (a sort of boroughs within a rural municipality handling matters of urban character) in the municipality. Geography The municipality consists of ten year-round inhabited islands. They are considered to stretch from the Vinga Lighthouse up to the coastal town of Marstrand in the municipality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archipelago Of Gothenburg
The archipelago of Gothenburg () comprises northern and southern archipelagoes. The southern archipelago is part of Gothenburg municipality located in the province of Västergötland while the northern archipelago is Öckerö municipality, located in the province of Bohuslän. Northern archipelago The main islands of the northern Gothenburg archipelago are: * Björkö *Fotö * Grötö *Hyppeln *Hälsö *Hönö *Kalvsund * Källö-Knippla * Rörö *Öckerö Southern archipelago The southern Gothenburg archipelago lies off the coast of Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city. It has 5,000 permanent and another 6,000 summer residents. The archipelago is completely car free. Transportations is carried out by means of cycles, delivery mopeds, electric cars and ferries. In the Norse sagas, it was called Elfarsker (the river islets), as the river Göta älv had its estuary there. The islands appear to have been famous as a location for holmgangar during the Viking Age. Sagas where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islands Of Västra Götaland County
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Populated Places In Västra Götaland County
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
