Seven Island Lake Nature Reserve

Seven Island Lake Nature Reserve

Infobox_protected_area
name = Seven Island Lake Nature Reserve
native_name = Rezerwat przyrody Jezioro Siedmiu Wysp
iucn_category = IV
location = Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
area = 10.06 km²
established = 1956

Seven Island Lake Nature Reserve ( _pl. Rezerwat przyrody Jezioro Siedmiu Wysp) is a nature reserve established in 1956 around Oświn lake in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. The reserve is in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in Gmina Węgorzewo (part of Węgorzewo County).

The area is an important breeding ground for water birds, and is both a Ramsar site (one of 13 such sites in Poland) and a Natura 2000 site. The reserve covers an area of approximately convert|10|km2|sqmi, consisting of about 3.5 km² of water bodies, 6 km² of marshland and 0.5 km² of forest.

References

*Polish|Rezerwat przyrody Jezioro Siedmiu Wysp|1 June 2008


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