Äxholmen - Rörholmarna
Here you can step ashore straight into history:
7. Lindholmen: There is a row of rock beacons along the top. Here you can learn more about navigation marks through the ages.
8. Äxholmen: Unusually extensive remains of fishermen's stone huts. For hundreds of years people have moved out to the islands during the fishing season.
9. Rammen: Foundations of one of the many rendering plants where fish oil was extracted from the herring. During the great herring period of the eighteenth century the stench along the coast was appalling. But the income was enormous, and a good deal of it found its way into the tavern at Rammen.
10. Norra Rörö: Immense boulder-strewn shore on the west side. Also one of the mysterious labyrinths of the coast and a burial cairn steeped in legend.
11. Lilla Vannholmen: See the ruins of the house of the sturdy "lasses of Vannholmen". Get to know the island and try to imagine their lives and their labour to eke out a livelihood from the sea and the soil.
12., 13. Stensholmen and Rörholmarna: This area had Sweden's largest concentration of rendering plants and curing houses during the herring period of the eighteenth century. The bases of the vats and the foundations of industrial buildings and dwellings survive.
