Seskar Furö is an uninhabited island in the northeast of the Swedish sector of the

Bay of Bothnia The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia (; ) is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia, which is in turn the northern part of the Baltic Sea. The land holding the bay is still rising after the weight of ice-age glaciers has been removed, and wit ...

. It is now part of a national park.

Location

Seskar Furö is the second largest island in the Haparanda Archipelago National Park ( sv, Haparanda skärgårds nationalpark), in the Haparanda archipelago, to the west of the Finnish Perämeri National Park. All of the islands in the Haparanda archipelago have emerged in the last 1,500 years or so, as the bed of the bay has risen due to

post-glacial rebound Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound ...

following the last ice age. The land continues to rise at about per year, so the island is steadily expanding. The island is sandy, with large dunes on the western shores. It is mostly covered by relatively undisturbed pine forests. There are remains of a former fishing village, including a turf maze.

References

Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Seskar Furo Swedish islands in the Baltic Islands of Norrbotten County Uninhabited islands of Sweden