Can you feel anything but happiness, if you live on an island in the Baltic Sea and realize that a major chunk of the neighboring sea is about to become a national park? Many of us were both delighted and surprised in April 2020, when the Swedish government and our local municipality agreed that the outer Nämdö archipelago should become the first maritime national park on Sweden’s Baltic coast. Number two in the country, after Kosterhavet on the West Coast, inaugurated in 2007.
