Limön Island


From late May to late August up to three daily 45-minute boat tours on the M/S Drottning Silvia run from Södra Skeppsbron, Gävle's port, to the island of Limön, part of the surrounding archipelago. The island has a nature trail and several forested walking paths, and a mass grave and memorial to the sailors of a ship that was lost here in the early 1800s.


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