Landsort is a long narrow island (4.5 kilometers long and 500 m wide) in the sea, the extreme southern end of Södertörn.

View from the lighthouse

The dense settlement in the village of Storhamn was built in the second half of the 1800s in connection with shipping increased importance.

The island's chapel

It has always been a source of inspiration for artists to
visit Landsort, the most common is that they draw
or paint in watercolor.

A nature trail winds over Landsorts internal parts. The island has a luxuriant vegetation, swamps, qaugmire and aquatic plants.
There are rare orchids and botanical rarities as whitebeam,
arctic bramble and yew.

The rich vegetation at Landsort and it's remoteness makes
Landsort to one of the county's finest bird locations.
Lots of birds stop here each spring and autumn.