Kallskär archipelago (Map code: 11J SO)
Along the coast off Stockholm is a world of islands, almost 50.000 in number, from flat rocks just above sea surface to large forested and settled islands, ‘Stockholms skärgård’, the Stockholm archipelago. The middle Swedish flat subcambrian peneplain dips slowly to the east under the Baltic Sea. As a readjustment of the earth crust after the melting of the inland ice 10.000 years ago the land surface is rising at a speed here of still 5 mm/year making 5 m in 1000 years. New islands emerge, old islands grow together when shallow waters dry up. The adjacent provinces of eastern middle Sweden have all emerge out of sea in post-glacial time. By and by the new land has been settled. Fishing and hunting beside small-scale agriculture have been traditional ways of making a living here. During the last 100 years the archipelago has been transformed to a vacation paradise for the nearby capital, with summer cottages, yachts and amateur fishing. These activities are concentrated to summertime, leaving a very sparse population through winter time. The archipelago is served by a network of shiplines to islands not connected to mainland with bridges or car-ferries.

Swedish Gazetteer

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Map Source: Lantmäteriet (Swedish National Landsurvey)

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