property. The beacon and lighting arrangements are subject to the supervision
of the Pilotage Board. However, there are certain private waterways which in
this regard do not fall within the purview of the Pilotage Board.
Harbours and Dry Docks.
In virtue of the long line of the Swedish coast, the almost entire
absence of tide, the existence of numberless firths and river-mouths penetrating
deeply into the country, provided with good anchorages, and sheltered
by nature from wind and wave, and also of a number of lakes connected
by canals with the sea, Sweden has in proportion to her population,
an extremely large number, of harbours. Most of these are natural harbours,
that is, harbours protected entirely or to a very great
extent by the natural conformation of the land. But Sweden has also
a good many harbours, and some of them of very considerable importance,
which to a great extent have been protected by artificial means. To the
former category belong the two greatest harbours in Sweden, Stockholm
and Gothenburg, besides Lulea, Sundsvall, Gavle, Oxelosund, and Norr-
koping. Among artificial harbours should be reckoned Malmo,'Kalmar,
Tralleborg, Halsingborg, Visby, Ystad, and Halmstad.
T able 122. Important Harbours.
Harbour
I n 1 9 1 0 A t t h e e n d o f 1 9 1 0
Total depth
Construction
Costs of
Harbour*
in
mill. kr.
Ships entering
or leaving Dues for
Quays in use for general traffic foi
under mean water level
under 4 m 4 to 6 m over 6 m
Number Reg.
Tons
Tonnage
kr.
Freight
kr.
Stone
in
Wood
m
Stone
m
Wood
m
Stone
m
Wood ft m
Stockholm . 15A 85 663 6 799 603 316 081 619 143 179 651 2 309 5921 2 427 1642
Gothenburg . m m 16 809 4 510108 384 243 470124 3 775 232 1864 _ 1249 B —
Malmo . . . 175 12 789 4 463 560 141995 288 607 —1150 —1565 2 400 3 ¡800
Lule& . . | 1-9 2 493 1698 604 81551 14895 — -r- H f l 732 540 ■ .,
Ornskoldsvik 0-9 1738 534 244 27 909 19338 — 200 267 435 I S ®
H a rn o s a n d . 0-6 6572 726 582 22 730 23 548 100 340 330 565 _ ■180
Sundsvall 1-6 9 617 1425 064 62 634 60 951 541 _ 713 — 208
Hudiksvall . 0-4 1310 516 818 30264 20 793 _ 240 404 229 —■ 4
Soderhamn . 2-0 4 397 774 144 56 679 49 655 60 4 050 - 620 564 --
Gavle . . . 3-9 3846 1436 872 95 749 185 019 245 3 917 1628 2110 480
Oxelosund . 1-9 2834 1417 803 2 2 335 117 150 __ 497
Norrkdping . 3-4 4 265 1016 574 75 279 184 014 H H 5®|S| 2 806 738 —
Y aster vik . 0-5 5 060 538 232 16 816 22 593 — 565 300 110 I H
Oskarshamn 1-6 2 545 554 256 21 956 36 063 140 270 1005 B R 9 —
Kalmar . . 1-5 6152 1055 542 47 342 82 406 70 700 905 425 200 fs 100
Karlskrona . 1-8 2 408 537 568 34 091 35 145 150 165 155 675 _ 1:340
Tralleborg . 2-2 2 905 2 670 085 24004 94 763 — 135 — 360 * 505
Landskrona. 10 4154 883 383 40082 88 400 — 400 — 570 410 1 490
Halsingborg 5-2 12 059 2 981276 93 548 203 529 26 22 698 535 1378 142
Halmstad. . 1'5 4 012 700 197 52 815 124 744 392 882 576 1181 — —I
1 In some cases: approximate value of harbour works. — ! No harbour dues are paid.
Gothenburg Harbour (south bank of the Gota àlv).