Dyngö is a small island in the archipelago of

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

's west coast, located in the province (''landskap'') of

Bohuslän Bohuslän () is a Provinces of Sweden, Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea to the ...

, near the village

Fjällbacka Fjällbacka is a locality situated in Tanum Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, with 859 inhabitants in 2010. It is located approximately from Gothenburg, from Oslo and from Stockholm, and is mostly known as a summer tourist resort. ...

. Formerly a fishing community, the island now has few or no permanent inhabitants, hosting instead a number of summer residents. In the 1950s one prominent summer resident was

Per Nyström Per Nyström (21 November 1903 – 3 October 1993) was a Swedish historian, publicist, Social Democrat and governor of Gothenburg and Bohus County Gothenburg and Bohus County () was a county of Sweden until 1 January 1998, when it was mer ...

, the then county governor of the provinces of Bohuslän and

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