Byrums Raukar
About a hundred and twenty limestone stacks standing on the north-west shore of Oland, cut by an older sea.
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Raukar are what is left when waves cut away softer limestone and leave the harder cores standing, and Byrum has the only substantial field of them on Oland - about a hundred and twenty pillars along a few hundred metres of shore, up to four metres high, in odd mushroom and column shapes. They were cut by a sea level higher than the present one, in the period after the ice when the Baltic stood differently, so they are now above the waterline on a shingle and slab beach. Gotland has larger fields of the same formation. Sunset light from the west side is the standard photograph and the reason people time a visit late.
What you actually see
- About a hundred and twenty stacks - along a few hundred metres.
- Mushroom and column shapes - harder cores left standing.
- Cut by a higher post-glacial sea - now above the waterline.
- A west-facing shore - which is why sunset is the moment.
When to go
May to September; late afternoon for the light. An hour and a half.
Honest expectations
The site is small and the visit short. Summer evenings crowd it for photographs. The shore is slab and shingle, hard walking. There are no facilities beyond a car park.
Nearby
Trollskogen is north-east; Borgholm is south.
What to pack for Byrums Raukar
Chosen from what this place is for. Tap a kit for the full checklist.
Opening times, ticket prices and seasonal closures change - check the official source before you go: official site.
