# @swedense on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DAiUULAqUHV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30683711-swedense-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-30T09:26:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** sweden.se (@swedense) — https://gondola.cc/swedense

## Caption

🌳 Starting in the 1830s, some 300,000 oak trees were planted on the Swedish island of Visingsö in Lake Vättern. This was done to secure high-quality timber for the Swedish Navy's shipbuilding.

☎️ But in 1975, when the Swedish Chief of Navy received a call about the first trees finally being deemed old enough to be cut down, the era of wooden shipbuilding was over. That ship had sailed, so to speak.

⛵ Today, the valuable timber from Visingsö is still used, for example to build replicas of old ships. One of the more famous ones is the sailing ship Götheborg of Sweden – a scaled replica of an 18th-century ship that was used for trade with China.

🪑 Also, furniture made from these oak trees can be found on the small island of Riddarholmen and in Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, among other places.

Photos: 1. Visingsö: Åke E:son Lindman/Statens fastighetsverk; 2. Götheborg of Sweden: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet; 3. Nola; 4. Visingsö: Statens fastighetsverk; 5. Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum

#Visingsö #Sweden #Oaktrees #Vättern #Götheborg #Wood

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sweden, visingsö, oaktrees, vättern, wood, götheborg

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