Solskensholmarna

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Solskensholmarna[1] are islands in Finland.[2] They are located in the Gulf of Finland[3] and in the municipality of Porvoo[4] in the economic region of Porvoo in the region of Uusimaa, in the southern part of the country. The islands are about 29 kilometers east of Helsinki.

The area of the islands pointed by the coordinates is 1.8 hectares and its greatest length is 220 meters in a north–south direction.[5]

Climate[edit]

Continental climate prevails in the area. The average annual temperature in the area is 5 °C. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is 16 °C, and the coldest is January, with −5 °C.[6]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ National Land Survey of Finland: Map Names 1:25 000, file downloaded from free data download service 2017-03-17
  2. ^ Solskensholmarna at Geonames.org (cc-by); post updated 2015-01-17; database dump downloaded 2016-04-24
  3. ^ The division of the Baltic Sea according to the Helsinki Convention as per this map Archived 2017-03-09 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 2017-03-08).
  4. ^ Based on polygon from the National Land Survey of Finland's free data download service
  5. ^ National Land Survey of Finland: Terrain Map 1:100 000, downloaded 2017-02-21 from .maanmittauslaitos.fi/tp/kartta?lang=en free data download service
  6. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2016. (Note that the data refers to ground temperature and not air temperature).