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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mattias is a freelance photographer currently living in sunny Hawaii. He enjoys all kinds of graphic design, developing web applications and building crazy Lego towers with his son.

Because of the topology of the land, no large scale agriculture has been possible and this has resulted in a well preserved cultural landscape with small farms and villages. In Norrboda, there are several well preserved farms from the end of the 19th century. This part of the archipelago is relatively sparsly populated and since there has only been small scale farming, the area has great natural values and contains many important biotopes for a large number of plant and animal species both on land and in the water.

The archipelago has a great variation of biotopes ranging from shallow protected bays, serving as spawning areas for a wide range of fish species, to the more exposed outer parts with large colonies of nesting sea birds and Baltic Sea Gray Seals.