Oknö is an island outside

Mönsterås Mönsterås () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Mönsterås Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden, with 6,352 inhabitants in 2012. Mönsterås is associated with the Swedish poet Carl Boberg, particularly his 1885 writing of the ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, and the name of the only town located on the

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

. The "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"

Karolina Olsson Karolina Olsson (29 October 1861 – 5 April 1950), also known as "Soverskan på Oknö" ("The Sleeper of Oknö"), was a Swedish woman who purportedly remained in hibernation between 1876 and 1908 (32 years). This is believed to be the longest ...

was born and lived on the island.Holmstedt, Bo; Ljungberg, Lennart; Moëll, Hans; Sjöberg, Sven G. "Soverskan på Oknö" 1963.

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Islands of Kalmar County {{Kalmar-geo-stub