Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Gotland
Sweden's largest island: Hanseatic Visby, fossil-reef rauks and Viking hoards in the Baltic.
- Formation
- Silurian limestone plateau; rauk stacks, alvar pavement, caves.
- Population
- 61,023
- Water
- Baltic Sea
- Access
- easy
Every required movement
The passage
to Gotland.
Fly to Visby (VBY) from Stockholm and other Swedish cities, or ferry with Destination Gotland from Nynäshamn/Oskarshamn.
- 01Visby Airport (VBY)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Destination Gotland: Nynäshamn–Visby and Oskarshamn–Visby.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
Schengen rules (Sweden); no island permits.
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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What the chart cannot hold
What becomes visible when you follow visby old town beyond the familiar map?
Sweden's largest island, a Baltic limestone isle famed for the medieval Hanseatic town of Visby (UNESCO), sea-stack rauks, Viking silver hoards and sunny summers.
Independent medieval trading power with its own law, contested by Danes, Teutonic Knights and Swedes; Swedish since the 1645 Peace of Brömsebro. Visby's Hanseatic old town is UNESCO-listed.
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The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 57.50° N · 18.55° E
- Sovereignty
- Sweden · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Swedish mainland (~90 km west across the Baltic)
- Best recorded window
- June–August; Medieval Week in August.
- Permits / entry
- Schengen rules (Sweden); no island permits.
- Languages
- Swedish, Gutnish (Gutamål)
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