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Brandholm

Brandholm (also written Brändholm) is a tiny, uninhabited islet in the outer Brändö archipelago, in the far north-east corner of Åland. Measuring only about 0.18 km² and rising just a handful of metres above the Baltic, it is one of the countless low granite skerries and wooded holms that dissolve into the sea here — a dot of land to be passed rather than a place with roads, harbours or sights of its own. You are most likely to reach Brandholm's neighbourhood by kayak, sailboat or the Brändö–Kumlinge ferry line, and its value for a visitor is as part of that wider outer-archipelago experience: calm open water, windswept shores and the deep quiet of an almost empty sea frontier on the Finnish side of the Åland chain.