National park in Västra Götaland County
Kosterhavet National Park
Kosterhavet is Sweden’s first marine national park, ranging from eelgrass meadows to the 247-metre Koster Trench. About six thousand marine species live here, nearly three hundred occur nowhere else in Sweden, and cold-water coral builds reefs 85 metres below the surface.
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- County
- Västra Götaland County
- Municipalities
- Strömstad and Tanum
- Nature environment
- Islands and skerries · Marine environment · Coastal landscape
Official information
Up-to-date visitor information is available from Sveriges nationalparker, the official website for Sweden’s national parks.
Read about Kosterhavet National Park on Sveriges nationalparker