Öland
Americannoun
noun
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The observatory sits at the tip of Öland, an island in the Baltic Sea about 300 kilometers as the wigeon flies from the park in Germany where the white-tailed eagles reside.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2023
Excavations in 2014 on the Swedish island of Öland revealed the bones of victims who were left unburied and unburned.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023
In 1676, a Swedish warship called the Kronan capsized and partially exploded in the Baltic, just 6 kilometers off the coast of Öland, taking at least 600 men down with it.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023
Finding himself surrounded by water on the Swedish island of Öland, he took swimming lessons.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2020
In the seventeenth century, when the kings used to go over to Öland to hunt, the entire estate was nothing but a deer park.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
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