Sompasaari

thumb|right|Apartment buildings in Sompasaari, built in 2020. Sompasaari (Swedish: Sumparn) is an island on the Kruunuvuorenselkä water area in the Sörnäinen district in Helsinki, Finland. On the southern side of the Nihdinkanava channel built in the middle of Sompasaari is the island of Nihti.

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Vinony's link graph records 170 inbound references to Sompasaari, and connects out to Viikki, Kaarela and Finland.

The entry is geolocated on the map in isle_region, across 2 mapped points.

It sits within the topics Islands of Helsinki and Sörnäinen.

Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: island
Part of: Sörnäinen
Country: Finland
Located in: Helsinki
Area: 0.26
Shares border with: Kalasatama
Location: Sörnäinen
Image: Apartment buildings by Aallonhalkoja street in Sompasaari, Helsinki, Finland, 2020 November.jpg

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Commons category: Sompasaari

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Contents

History
Etymology
In recreational use
In harbour use
In residential use
Nomenclature
References
External links

The island was originally connected to the mainland with reclaimed land and the Sörnäinen Harbour was built on top of it. Because of this, the entire harbour has been referred to as Sompasaari. Signs on roads leading to the harbour used the name Sompasaari exclusively, with an icon representing a cargo harbour. Harbour facilities in Sörnäinen ended in late 2008 when they moved to the new Vuosaari Harbour. In 2016 the island was converted to a residential area and it was separated from nearby Kalasatama by digging a new channel called Sompasaarenkanava between them.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sompasaari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.