Gotland Raukar Sea Stacks

About this spectacle

Along Gotland's limestone coastline, ancient sea stacks known as raukar rise dramatically from the water and shore — sculpted columns of pale Silurian limestone left standing as the surrounding rock eroded away over millennia. Visitors walk among these otherworldly formations, some towering several metres high, their weathered surfaces etched with fossils and ridged textures. The stacks are concentrated in several coastal locations around the island, most famously at Fårö and Digerhuvud. The Baltic Sea glitters around them, and in low morning or evening light the stones glow amber and gold against the water. Seabirds wheel overhead and wildflowers colonise the cracks in the limestone pavement. It is a genuinely strange and quiet landscape — less dramatic than a volcano but deeply atmospheric, with the feeling of walking through a petrified forest at the edge of the sea.

When to go

Apr — Oct, peak May — Aug

Getting there

Nearest airport: VBY. Nearest city: Visby.

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