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File:Ryxö island nature reserve in Brofjorden.jpg, featured[edit]
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places#Sweden
Info In the 60s, this area was the focus of one of the hottest debates in Sweden, as plans were made to build Scandinavia's biggest oil refinery and oil port so close to a nature reserve. This gave the newly awakened environmental movement a push and the refinery was made to be "the world's safest and most beautiful", with most of the operation underground, blasted into the granite cliffs. The reserve is so far untouched and has a variety of local wildlife plus a heard of cows. In this photo I managed to catch four roe deer down by the shore. The photo is taken from a ledge overlooking the flatlands of the old Rixö granite quarry (shown here). There used to be a hill there, as big and high as the one I'm standing on, but it got chopped up and shipped off to Germany to be used in the construction of Autobahn. No such quantities of durable granite could be obtained in Germany and everything was shipped from the quay down left in the photo. The water snaking off towards the horizon is the inlet of Brofjorden, today trafficked by tankers. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 17:35, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
Support -- Cart (talk) 17:35, 22 June 2018 (UTC)- Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:35, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:57, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Milseburg (talk) 10:55, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:40, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 22:48, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support So nice to see this feature, which has figured in so many of your other images, in its entirety, or at least close to it. I knew it was the only real fjord in Sweden; I didn't know about its role in your country's environmental history ... parallel to that of Storm King near where I live, or, a little further away, Tocks Island Dam (or, rather, non-Dam today). Daniel Case (talk) 01:16, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- There are actually three real fjords here, Brofjorden, Gullmarn and Åbyfjorden. Also several minor ones. The one in the photo is obviously my favorite since it's the most photogenic. :) You can see the rest of it, to the right, here. --Cart (talk) 09:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support Jee 02:37, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:32, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 04:55, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Tozina (talk) 19:30, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Basile Morin (talk) 23:35, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places#Sweden
