Jurmo is an

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and a

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in the municipality of

Pargas Pargas () is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the central parts, t ...

in the outer islands of the

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off of

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

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. Directly south of the island of

Korpo Korpo (; ) is an island located in the Turku archipelago. It is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Houtskär, Iniö, Nagu and Pargas to form the new town of Väståboland. As of 1 January 2012, Vä ...

and northeast of the island of Utö, this elongated island is in length with an average width of . The island has had its own

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since 1846 and a bird observatory. Although there are dozen or so permanent residents on the island, they are joined by quite a few part-time residents come summertime. The island of Jurmo was formed during the

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and, as an island surrounded by large amounts of gravel, and not consisting of only rock like most other islands in the region, is actually a distant continuation of the Third Salpausselkä.

References

Map of the Archipelago

External links

* * * http://www.korpo.net/jurmo.html * http://www.vafo.fi/kyrkor-och-kapell/202-jurmo-kapell * http://www.nationalparks.fi/archipelagonp/history {{Coord, 59, 49.5, N, 21, 36, E, type:isle, display=title Finnish islands in the Baltic Pargas Landforms of Southwest Finland Geography of Southwest Finland