German student Miriam Wiskemann is one of five people to win the right to manage a small Swedish island for a year – Image: Privat/dpa/picture alliance
A German student is among five people who have won the “Your Swedish Island” campaign.
Miriam Wiskemann from Düsseldorf will for the next year become the custodian of a Swedish island in the competition run by the Swedish Tourism Board.
“There are no specific obligations,” Miriam Wiskemann told German news agency dpa.
The main requirement is that the winners do not interfere with Sweden’s right of unfettered public access to the land.
Competition-Image: Tourism Sweden
German winner will be facing rocks and cormorants
The island consists of rocks and was colonized by cormorants in the 1990s.
It is accessible only by watercraft and lies around six kilometres off the west coast of Sweden in an archipelago near a nature reserve.
The competition garnered 2,242 applications from around 100 countries. The other winners come from Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
DW.com/NAN 27-05-26
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