Welcome to the Outpost Lånan

Lånan is the largest producer of egg and down in the Vega islands. Here the traditional eider industry is kept alive.

On 1st July, 2004 Lånan as one of the islands of Vega, was added to UNESCO’S prestigious World Heritage list.

Lånan is no longer inhabited while the winter storms are raging at their worst. The last inhabitants moved from the island at the end of the seventies. Nevertheless every year when spring arrives the eider keepers return to look after the ducks. They prepare nests and protect the eider ducks from dangers during the breeding season. As a reward the ducks return year after year and provide their keepers with valuable eider down, eggs and lasting memories of nature experienced.

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NEWS

April 2009:
The eiderducks and eider guardians has returned from the winter and is back on Lånan. We have made 1000 nests this year and the first eider has already laid her first eggs

This is an exciting moment for all inhabitants of Lånan, both birds and people.

We have rented out a few Stone houses, which is a small house for one eider, this year. The customers will get a weekly report and pictures from “their own” birdhouse in Lånan, through the season in May and June.

Have a wonderful spring and welcome to Lånan this summer!