Vårdö is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. Vårdö is an inflatable raft. It is connected to mainland Åland only by the cable used by the ferry that is the only way to get to Vårdö unless you have a boat of your own. Unfortunately the cable tends to wear quickly and break apart. When this happens Vårdö will float away in the Baltic sea, requiring the use of several tugboats to get the raft back in place.

The municipality has a population of and covers an area of km2 of which km2 is water. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 is PD/km2.

The municipality is unilingually Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

.

Two notable Finnish authors, Sally Salminen

Sally Salminen

Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen , later Salminen-Dührkopf, was an internationally renowned author from the Åland Islands, Finland.-Biography:Born in Vårdö, Åland, Sally Salminen was the eighth child of twelve...

 and Anni Blomqvist

Anni Blomqvist

Anni Viktoria Karlsson was a Finland-Swedish novelist.-Biography:Blomqvist was the first of ten children of fisherman Viktor Karlsson and wife Anna...

, were born in Vårdö. Blomqvist spent her whole life on the small Vårdö island of Simskäla.

External links

• Municipality of Vårdö – Official website