Muskö
island in Stockholm archipelago and Haninge Municipality, Sweden
Muskö is an island in the southern part of Stockholm archipelago, which forms part of Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is best known for the Muskö Naval Base. There are also two urban areas (tätort) on the island: Muskö and Hoppet.
Access to the mainland is by the Muskö Tunnel, with a length of 2,895 metres (9,498 ft), which connects Muskö to the neighbouring island of Yxlö under the waters of the Baltic Sea. Yxlö is itself connected to the mainland by a series of road bridges. The road across the bridges and islands, and through the tunnel, is known as the Muskö road and was originally built in the 1960s to provide access to the naval base.
The island of Muskö is divided into east and west halves by the Muskö Canal, an artificial channel first dug at the beginning of the 18th century and re-excavated in the 1930s.
The public source identifies “Muskö” as island in Stockholm archipelago and Haninge Municipality, Sweden. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Muskö, island and Stockholm.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q37268032. VIAF identifies the subject as 236599646. Authority coordinates are 59.000, 18.133. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Muskö” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.