Arkösund is a small village on the Swedish East Coast, on

Vikbolandet Vikbolandet is a large peninsula east of Norrköping city in Östergötland, Sweden. The area is limited by Bråviken to the north, Slätbaken to the south and the Baltic Sea to the east. The biggest population center is Östra Husby with a pop ...

peninsula,

Norrköping Municipality Norrköping Municipality () is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrköping, with some 90,000 inhabitants. It is the largest municipality in Östergötland. By the time of the local g ...

with 172 inhabitants in 2015. Its population swells in the summer, when the yacht people arrive to anchor up in the

marina A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : "related to the sea") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo ...

to shop for food. It is most famous for its

archipelago An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Example archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the o ...

( Sankt Anna archipelago, part of the

Östergötland archipelago The Östergötland archipelago is the collective name of three archipelagoes located to the east of the shore of Östergötland, Sweden, spanning three municipalities of Sweden, municipalities. It consists of 8,888 islands. It measures more than ...

) — many small islands can easily be reached by boat from the harbour. During the summer season of 2007 an estimated 40,000 tourists visited Arkösund.

References

External links

Hotel: * https://arkosundshotell.se/ Populated places in Östergötland County {{Östergötland-geo-stub