Resarö is an island in the Stockholm archipelago and a

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Vaxholm Municipality Vaxholm Municipality (''Vaxholms kommun'' or ''Vaxholms stad'') is a municipality within Stockholm archipelago in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The municipal slogan is "Vaxholm – the capital of the archipelago", due to its centra ...

, Stockholm County, Sweden. It had 2,946 inhabitants in 2010. Resarö includes the hamlet of

Ytterby Ytterby () is a village on the Swedish island of Resarö, in Vaxholm Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago. Today the residential area is dominated by suburban homes. The name of the village translates to "outer village". Ytterby is per ...

, famous for the discovery of several

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s in a local mine.

The name

The old form of the name was ''Risarna''. The first element is ''ris'' '

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' - the last element is derived from ''arin'' ' gravel; island made by gravel'. The last element ''ö'' 'island' was added in the 16th century.

References

Islands of the Stockholm archipelago Islands of Vaxholm Municipality Populated places in Vaxholm Municipality {{Stockholm-geo-stub