Stora Alvaret (Swedish: [ˈstûːra ˈâlːvarɛt]; "the Great Alvar") is an alvar, a barren limestone terrace, in the southern half of the island of Öland, Sweden...

of Öland, Sweden. It includes Stora alvaret (great alvar), a limestone plateau of around half that surface. Stora alvaret is a dagger-shaped area almost...

peninsula. The dominant environmental feature of the island is the Stora Alvaret, a limestone pavement which is the habitat of numerous rare and endangered...

Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret on the island of Öland, Sweden. Archaeological evidence indicates this...

Gravefield. Much of Öland County's present day landscape known as the Stora Alvaret has been designated as a World Heritage Site. Axel Adlersparre (1819-1821)...

ship burial ground. Gettlinge is situated on the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret, a World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO. The site is readily visible...

Plain (Hampshire and Sussex, England) South Småland peneplain (Sweden) Stora Alvaret (Öland, Sweden) Strandflat (Norway) Sub-Cambrian peneplain (Nordic countries)...

limestone with thin soil mantles. The largest such expanse in Europe is the Stora Alvaret on the island of Öland, Sweden. Another area with large quantities of...

Ingleborough, and above Grange-over-Sands. They are also found in the Stora Alvaret in Öland, Sweden; in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland, the Great Northern...

covered limestone is known as calcareous grassland. Sweden Öland – Stora Alvaret – largest alvar extent in Europe Gotland Västergötland – several locations...

Machu Picchu (Peru) Mending Wall (US) Nuraghe (Sardegna) Stone industry Stora Alvaret (Sweden) Trullo (Italy) Village des Bories (France) Seymour, John (1984)...

has little topographic relief due to the presence of the very level Stora Alvaret. The rising land has caused the Iron Age settlement area to recede from...

hunted since the Stone Age. Excavations in Alby, Sweden, adjacent to the Stora Alvaret have yielded moose antlers in wooden hut remains from 6000 BCE, indicating...

island of Öland. Much of Öland's present day landscape known as the Stora Alvaret has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This southern...

The agricultural landscape of southern Öland, which is known as the Stora Alvaret or Great Alvar, has been entered as a site of the UNESCO World heritage...

subsidence, but rather to control it. Alvar structures such as on the Stora Alvaret, Öland, Sweden Karst limestone such as in the Madagascar dry deciduous...

tip of Öland, Ottenby Öland 12 The Big Butterfly ("Den stora fjärilen") Öland, Stora Alvaret Öland 13 Little Karl's Island ("Lilla Karlsö") Lilla Karlsö...

been designated a world heritage site by UNESCO in the form of the Stora Alvaret nature reserve. This reserve is home to a vast number of rare and endangered...

bushveld in South Africa; California’s coastal wetlands; and Sweden’s Stora Alvaret on the island of Öland. In this case also, careful inventories of species...

growth can also occur in some cases of highly alkaline soils such as the Stora Alvaret (Great Alvar) formation on the island of Öland in Sweden. In that area...

perimeter highway, Route 136. Limestone was quarried from the local Stora Alvaret to produce the core of the present manor in the late 18th century, although...

Öland, Sweden. Hulterstad is situated at the eastern fringe of the Stora Alvaret, a limestone pavement habitat which hosts a diversity of rare plants...

July 14 at the Borgholm Sports Field. There are small reaches of the Stora Alvaret geological formation in the environs of Borgholm, which level exposures...

the Öland Harvest Festival. Alby People Alvar Dry-stone wall Ringfort Stora Alvaret Price, T. Douglas (2015). Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History...

of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau, Stora Alvaret. The island has been inhabited for about five thousand years. The barren...

the native deer. The reserve is situated at the southern edge of the Stora Alvaret, a unique limestone pavement ecosystem designated as a World Heritage...