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  Sweden - Stockholm
Stockholm's Old Town is located on a small island in the very heart of the city.
More recently the archipelago has become an experience shared by people from all walks of life--during the peak summer months the area's 10,000 permanent residents are joined by weekenders and vacationers from the city, who fill the cottages and homes of the islands and the pleasure boats that cruise the waterways in between.
For many, the island of Vaxholm typifies the attractions of Archipelago life, from the intimate scale of the harbor town to the striking natural beauty of the island itself.
www.geographia.com /sweden/stockholm.html   (1183 words)

  
 4 Hotel Reservations Stockholm - Accoomodation in Stockholm
Stockholm is a city of contrasts - water and islands, history and innovation, small town and big city, short winter days and long, light summer nights - with a dazzling array of impressions.
Stockholm is one third water, one third green belt and one third city.
Stockholmers and visitors alike come here to relax in the leafy shade and rest their eyes on green.
www.4hotelreservationsstockholm.com   (484 words)

  
 Archipelago - the Stockholm guide to tourist information, hotels & maps.
The Stockholm archipelago is one of the world’s most spectacular.
Stretching 80 kilometres east of the city, the archipelago comprises 24 000 islands, islets and rocks.
A day trip to the archipelago can be a glorious experience, but a one- or two-night stay will make you want even more.
www.stockholmtown.com /templates/MenuMain___2409__EN.aspx   (217 words)

  
 ARCHIPELAGOES - Stockholm archipelago - Start
The Stockholm archipelago is one of the world's most spectacular.
While the Stockholm Archipelago may seem practically infinite, it actually consists of 24,000 islands, islets and rocks.
During summer, the archipelago is filled with sailboats as many Stockholmers ply the waters.
www.archipelago.nu /SKARGARD/ENGELSKA/STOCKHOLM/STOCKSTART.HTM   (95 words)

  
 Welcome to Stockholm!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stockholm was originally built on 14 islands where the lake Mälaren meets the Baltic sea.
Even in the summer heat, the breeze from the sea will find its way into the city, and there are a lot of parks and green areas inside the city that will add to the feeling of being in a small town instead of a capital.
The written history of Stockholm starts some 700 years ago, but there are a lot of runestones and other traces of cultural influence showing that the presence of man has a long history in this area.
www.ida.liu.se /~jalma/ijcai-99/stockholm-index.html   (138 words)

  
 Cottages in Sweden Stockholm archipelago!
Stockholm's archipelago is one of the world´s most spectacular.
The area is close to the outer archipelago and the Åland Sea.
Stockholm is a wonderful mixture of old and new, parks and water.
www.dess.se /enindex.htm   (797 words)

  
 Stockholms stads webbplats - The Stockholm Archipelago
Startsida / This is Stockholm / Geography / The Stockholm Archipelago
Stockholm’s archipelago is one of the largest in the world with over 24 000 islets and islands.
Photo: Yanan Li The archipelago is a result of the last inland ice which covered all of Stockholm and disappeared some 10 000 years ago.
www.stockholm.se /Extern/Templates/Page.aspx?id=127803   (220 words)

  
 District Cooling in Stockholm Using Sea Water
There is also a description of the hydrological conditions that made the system feasible in Stockholm and some speculations about the possibilities to use cooled sea water elsewhere in the world.
The favorable conditions for sea water cooling is based on the fact that Stockholm lies on the shores of the Baltic Sea and at the mouth of Lake Malaren, the largest lake in Sweden.
However, the heat load was found to be too low during periods when the cooling requirement was great and it would have been complicated to make use of the limited temperature level from the heat pump during the winter period when we raise the temperature in the district heating network.
www.energy.rochester.edu /idea/cooling/1995/stockholm.htm   (1682 words)

  
 The Stockholm Archipelago - Two Words: Go There!
The Stockholm archipelago was created at the end of the Ice Age.
The archipelago is said to be one of the world’s best waters for pike!
This island with its sandy beaches and beautiful cliffs is one of the most popular holiday destinations of the Stockholm islands.
www.stockholm-sweden-travel-guide.com /archipelago.html   (475 words)

  
 Ecology and Society: Changing Use Patterns, Changing Feedback Links: Implications for Reorganization of Coastal ...
The complexity and diversity in archipelago fisheries call for multilevel arrangements and cross-scale coordination, and initiatives have been taken by both central governmental authorities and local user groups to collaborate concerning habitat restoration and protection of important spawning grounds.
In Stockholm County, there may be as many as 400 000 recreational fishers (Nilsson 1990), whereas the number of licensed commercial fishers declined from almost 3000 to only 36 over a 40-year period (H. Andersson, personal communication, 2005).
The Stockholm Archipelago has developed into a multi-use system characterized by a scattered ownership structure where rights and duties are distributed among a heterogeneous group of actors (Tables 2 and 3).
www.ecologyandsociety.org /vol11/iss2/art3/main.html   (10220 words)

  
 Stockholm
Stockholm is a city of islands - 14 to be exact.
The Stockholm archipelago contains 24,000 islands and rocks as we discovered when we arrived on the ferry early in the morning after an overnight journey from Helsinki.
The newer part of Stockholm is north of Gamla Stan on the island Norrmalm.
www.norseaodyssey.com /Our_Travels/Europe/Sweden/Stockholm/stockholm.htm   (902 words)

  
 History Stockholm archipelago conference incentive holiday yacht charter
What was to become the Stockholm Archipelago began to rise from a level 150 metres below the surface of the Baltic Sea and about 4000 years ago the first islands became visible.
Together, the archipelagos of Stockholm, Åland and Finland form the largest archipelago in the world counting more than 100 000 islands in total, out of which the Stockholm Archipelago accounts for about one third, or 30000.
The first inhabitants of the archipelago were stone-age hunters and fishermen from coastal regions, and settled in what at that time was the outer archipelago but today is recognised as Södertörn and Värmdö.
www.sycharter.com /history.asp   (341 words)

  
 AN IDYLLIC CRUISE THROUGH STOCKHOLM ARCHIPELAGO
Archipelago is what you call a place with so many islands - and islets and skerries (basically littler and littlest islands) - that you can hardly count them.
Stockholm is Stockholm, beauty on the water - beautiful light that reflects off the water and gives a special glow to the elegant, flag-festooned facades from the baroque, rococo and belle epoque periods that line its spacious boulevards and the narrow, winding streets of its old town.
The archipelago is as different from Stockholm as the Eastern Shore is from Virginia Beach, as Martha's Vineyard is from Boston.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950806/08080423.htm   (1939 words)

  
 The Stockholm Archipelago by Kate Morris| Travel Reviews from Travel Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The graceful capital city of Stockholm, which consists of fourteen islands between Lake Malaren and the Baltic Sea, is an obvious place to begin a voyage of the vast Archipelago, which stretches 80 km east into the Baltic Sea.
Stockholm is clean, quiet, and sparsely populated, so there is a liberating sense of space.
Today, there are numerous ferries that run from Stockholm to some of the more visited islands, although timetables are quite hard to fathom.
www.travelintelligence.net /wsd/articles/art_3.html   (1011 words)

  
 The Stockholm archipelago
Viewing Stockholm from above one is almost breathless of the beauty when spotting hundreds of small islands and islets lying like glittering pink and green pearls in the clear dark blue water in which also the city peacefully rests.
When visiting an archipelago like this the peacefulness and the beauty of the landscape is what strike you the most.
The Stockholm archipelago is the biggest one in Sweden with its more than 24 000 small islands, islets and rocks.
www.2008.com /cmarter.asp?doc=607   (196 words)

  
 Stockholm Hotels by Superpages
Stockholm has been Sweden's political and economic center since the 13th century and is currently the largest city, with a population of 774,000 within the borders of the Stockholm Municipality.
The populations of the Stockholm urban area and Metropolitan Stockholm are roughly 1.2 and 1.7 million, respectively.
Stockholm is located on the east coast of Sweden at the mouth of lake Mälaren and its adjacent Stockholm archipelago, a site reputed for its natural beauty.
www.superpages.com /global/hotels/stockholm-sweden-hotels.html   (1733 words)

  
 Stockholm Archipelago
Sandhamn is the 'Cowes' of Stockholm and lies near the outer edge of the archipelago.
Stockholm is often termed the 'Venice of the North'.
She sank in Stockholm harbour on her maiden voyage in 1628 and lay preserved in the mud until she was recovered in 1961.
homepages.enterprise.net /murphy/sweden97.html   (2727 words)

  
 Stockholm Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
At a reception for visiting dignitaries, the mayor of Stockholm surprised his guests by serving them glasses of a clear liquid that turned out to be water.
In fact, Stockholm has won the European Sustainable City Award in competition with 90-odd other cities, and a large swathe of Stockholm, including the vast royal domains, has been declared a national park for the benefit and enjoyment of the populace.
The piers of Stockholm's islands are lined with so many vessels of every category, from cruise ships and seagoing roll-on/roll-off vessels to island-hopping steamboats and pocket-size ferries, that it would seem impossible to squeeze in another motorboat, sailboat, or sloop.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=stockholm@152&cur_section=fea&feature=30010   (992 words)

  
 Stockholm Archipelago - Moment 23 Stockholm
Stockholm Archipelago is a film which, together with the pictures of Magnus Rietz and the music of Wilhelm Stenhammar, will give you a wonderful, relaxing sensation of Sweden´s foremost attraction, the Stockholm Archipelago.
He is profoundly interested in the cultural heritage of the Stockholm archipelago.
In Stock- holm Archipelago it was possible for him to use his acknowledged professional talents in putting together picture and music from his childhood environment.
www.moment23.se /stockholm/eng   (536 words)

  
 Stockholm and the Stockholm Archipelago photos (august 2006) » Ogo
Especially in the Stockholm Archipelago people seemed to obey what nature and local authorities was obliging them to do.
Stockholm Archipelago is a great spot for anyone seeking to spend some time in nature by the sea and it should be even better if you don’t attract mosquitoes.
When we took the boat trip to visit Huvudskär island which is out of Stockholm Archipelago, we noticed that beyond the sheltered waters of the Archipelago there was the Baltic, windy and shaky.
ogomogo.com /blog/2006/12/02/stockholm-and-the-stockholm-archipelago-photos-august-2006   (744 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
thumbMap of Stockholm and its archipelago The Stockholm Archipelago (Swedish: Stockholms Skärgård) is the biggest archipelago of Sweden, and one of the biggest archipelagos of the Baltic sea.
In 1719 the archipelago had an estimated population of 2,900, consisting mostly of fishermen.
The village of Ytterby, famous among chemists for naming no fewer than four chemical elements (erbium, terbium, ytterbium and yttrium), is situated in the Stockholm Archipelago.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Stockholm_archipelago   (245 words)

  
 Event Search: Stockholm Sport & Outdoors
Stockholm's archipelago is thought to begin at the harbour of Wasahamnen.
This annual gathering brings together boules fanatics from around the world in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården and is one of the biggest events of its kind in the world.
Stockholm's trendy Södermalm district is the place to be on any night of the year, but on this one, there's more reason to be there than the clubs and bars.
www.istc.org /sisp/index.htm?fx=event.search&loc_id=134917&cat_id=2232   (571 words)

  
 Stockholm travel guide - Wikitravel
Stockholm is not the oldest town in Sweden but after its establishment in the 1250s it rapidly became a national centre, having a very strategic location between a major lake (Mälaren) and the Baltic Sea.
Stockholm has more than 70 museums, ranging from those large in size and scope to the very specialized, including the Butterfly Museum, the Army Museum, and the Dance Museum.
Close to one of Stockholm's two IKEA stores, in the suburb Barkarby, rather far out northwest of the city center, you will find a factory outlet village that claims to be the first and biggest in the Nordic countries', and promises prices 30 to 60 percent lower than in the city center stores.
wikitravel.org /en/Stockholm   (12737 words)

  
 Stockholm
It is ideally situated for trade connections, and the 24,000 islands of the skärgård (archipelago) protect the urban islands from the open seas.
Stockholm's coastal archipelago (skärgård) consists of at least 24,000 islands and is served by one of the largest antique steamer fleets anywhere in Europe.
Stockholm is built on islands, except for the modern centre (Norrmalm), focused on the ugly Sergels Torg.
www.aol.com.au /site/aol/travel/destinations/stockholm.html   (2934 words)

  
 Stockholm - World Wikia - A free wiki from Wikia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The island of Vexholm is 75 minutes from Stockholm and has modern houses and a XVI Century fort.
Stockholm is decked with flowers for the occasion and people meet at Skansen, to celebrate with music and dance.
The Stockholm Beer festival is held during the months of May to September.
world.wikia.com /wiki/Stockholm   (1347 words)

  
 Stockholm   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The city of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, is situated on 14 islands connected by 52 bridges, Stockholm contains an important port, and is known for its architecture and scenic beauty.
Capsized on her maiden voyage on the 10th of August 1628 in the harbor of Stockholm.
With its 24,000 islands, the Stockholm archipelago is a unique place to spend time all year round.
members.tripod.com /~hosey_2/stockholm/stockholm.html   (109 words)

  
 Just the two of us | Travel | The Guardian
In the Stockholm archipelago, your most serious foes are mosquitoes at dusk and the occasional rogue tick.
There are a number of excellent restaurants in the archipelago including Oaxen (oaxenkrog.se) in the southern archipelago, Grinda (grindawardshus.se) in the central archipelago, and Smådalarö Gård (smadalarogard.se), just a short paddle from Dalarö Kajak.
Stockholm in winter is inevitably a chilly affair, making it all the more important to find a hideaway to cosy up in after a day perusing the Christmas markets or skating on the frozen Baltic.
www.guardian.co.uk /travel/2006/jun/10/watersportsholidays.camping.stockholm   (1378 words)

  
 RudyMaxa.com: Stockholm: Beauty on Water
The best time to visit Stockholm is in the summer, when the days are long and warm, and the sun never seems to set.
The Stockholm archipelago, with its 24,000 islands and skerries, is easily accessible and incredibly beautiful.
The Vasa Museum in Stockholm displays the m/s Vasa, the flagship of the Swedish royal fleet that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.
www.rudymaxa.com /article.php?ArticleID=3   (1076 words)

  
 Welcome to Värmdö in the Stockholm Archipelago
Situated in the middle of Stockholm Archipelago, Värmdö is just a short car ride away from Stockholm.
Värmdö is a big community, consisting of many small islands reaching as far as the outer archipelago.
In addition to all of this, there are many other activities on the island such as plays, concerts, etc. Please visit the calendar of events at http://varmdo.kringelstan.se for more details about what Värmdö has to offer.
www.skargardsstugor.se /english/stockholm-archipelago.aspx   (349 words)

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