Arkösund is a small village on the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 East Coast, on Vikbolandet

Vikbolandet

Vikbolandet is a large peninsula east of Norrköping city in Östergötland, Sweden. The area is limited by Bråviken to the north, Slätbaken to the south and the Baltic sea to the east. The biggest population center is Östra Husby with a population of 788, followed by Ljunga and Arkösund on the...

 peninsula, Norrköping Municipality

Norrköping Municipality

Norrköping Municipality is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrköping, with some 90,000 inhabitants....

. Its population swells in the summer, when the yacht people arrive to anchor up in the marina

Marina

A marina is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo from freighters....

 to shop for food. It is most famous for its archipelago

Archipelago

An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...

 (Sankt Anna archipelago) — many small islands easily
reached by boat from the harbour.

During the summer season of 2007 an estimated 40,000 tourists visited Arkösund.

External links

• http://www.arkosund.com/