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The Eastern Gulf of Finland National Park (Finnish: Itäisen Suomenlahden kansallispuisto, Swedish: Östra Finska vikens nationalpark) is a national park in the Kymenlaakso region of Finland. It was established in 1982 and has a total land area of 6.7 square kilometres (2.6 sq mi).
Ulko-Tammio is one of the islands in the Eastern Gulf of Finland National Park, located along the Baltic Sea, and offers visitors an escape into pristine nature.
The national parks cover a total area of 9,892 square kilometres (3,819 sq mi) – 2.7% of Finland's total land area. A total of 3.2 million people visited the parks in 2018. [1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of national park visitors strongly increased, with a total of 8.5 million people visiting the parks in 2021. [2]
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Map Gulf of Finland, NLT Landsat7.png; Author: Map Gulf of Finland, NLT Landsat7.png: NASA, NLT Landsat7 (Visible colour) satellite. derivative work: Ahnode (talk)
Gulf of Finland Satellite image showing the gulf entirely frozen over in January 2003. The Gulf of Finland has an area of 30,000 km 2 (12,000 sq mi). [2] The length (from the Hanko Peninsula to Saint Petersburg) is 400 km (250 mi) and the width varies from 70 km (43 mi) near the entrance to 130 km (81 mi) on the meridian of Moshchny Island; in the Neva Bay, it decreases to 12 km (7.5 mi).
The Monrepos Park is considered a jewel of the bay and a major draw for tourists. Since the mid-19th century, the bay has been connected by the Saimaa Canal to the lake Saimaa in Finland . In 1790, the bay was the scene of one of the largest naval battles in history , the Battle of Vyborg Bay , with a total of 498 Russian and Swedish ships.
Russian border guards have removed navigation buoys from the Estonian side of a river separating the two countries, the Baltic nation said on Thursday, adding that it would seek an explanation as ...