Furö
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thumb|260 px|The southern shore on Furö. Furö is an island located in the Baltic Sea five nautical miles (about 6 miles) off the east coast of Oskarshamn in Sweden.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Oskarshamn Municipality
- Area
- 56.868
- Body of water
- Kalmar Strait
- Image
- Furon.JPG
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- Furö
- inception
- 1998-06-11
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Pilot and lighthouse
- Shipwrecks
- References
thumb|260 px|The southern shore on Furö. Furö is an island located in the Baltic Sea five nautical miles (about 6 miles) off the east coast of Oskarshamn in Sweden.
== History == Historically the island has been used as base for fishing (mainly cod, herring and flounder). Today there are no permanent fishermen on the island. The whole island is a nature reserve and forms part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Furö” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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