Oknö is an island outside

Mönsterås Mönsterås () is a locality and the seat of Mönsterås Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders ...

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, and the name of the only town located on the

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

. 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 ti ...

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 Mönsterås Municipality {{Kalmar-geo-stub