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Sellingsundet was named after the surveyor and engineer
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from the Hägnan open-air museum. A hiking trail connects these three entrances. One problem for visitors is that the distance to the birds is often long and the views of the water too few. It is really only from the bird tower that you can look out over the water surface, and there are long distances such as hundreds of meters up to a kilometer from the bird flocks. From the
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water flows through a total of 2 watercourses before reaching the sea after 11 kilometers. The catchment area consists mostly of forest (67%). The catchment area has 2.14 square kilometers of water surface, giving it a lake percentage of 11 percent. The settlements in the area cover an area of 1.44 square kilometers or 7 percent of the catchment area.
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Gammelstadsviken is close to several residential areas, but forest areas separate the lake from them. The bay is limited on the south and west sides by roads and railways. There are no possible visitor routes into the reserve. The main entrances today are from Porsön, from the old
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The beaches around the bay were once used for cultivation, pastures, and hayfields. Much of this is now overgrown with forest but still bears traces of cultivation, including ditches. From Porsön to Köpmanholmen, across
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Sellingsundet. Gammelstadsviken has a rich bird fauna, of both migrating, resting and breeding birds: about 200 bird species have been observed at the
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