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Gotska Sandön National Park

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Gotska Sandön National Park protects an island composed largely of sand, in Gotland County, established in 1909 as one of the first nine national parks in Sweden and covering about 4,490 hectares. Its scenery is dominated by beaches, dunes and pine forest. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1. Gotska Sandön (Wikipedia)
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Gotska Sandön (literally translated as "The Gotlandic Sand Island") is an uninhabited Swedish island north of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
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