| Kalmar Strait | |
| Basin Countries: | Sweden |
| Length: | 130km (80miles) |
| Width: | 25km (16miles) |
| Min Width: | 5km (03miles) |
| Pushpin Map: | Sweden |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location in Sweden |
| Coordinates: | 56.7324°N 16.4493°W |
| Type: | strait |
The Kalmar Strait (Swedish: Kalmarsund) is a strait in the Baltic Sea, located between the Swedish island of Öland and the province of Småland of the Swedish mainland. The strait is about long and between and in width.
There is a road bridge across the strait, the Öland Bridge, opened in September 1972.
The areas along the Kalmar Strait have a heritage of Neolithic and Bronze Age habitation.[1] Moreover, Mesolithic people crossed the strait on an ice bridge in the early Holocene period as glaciers began to recede from Öland. A place where early Mesolithic settlement of the island of Öland occurred is Alby, whose people migrated across the Kalmar Strait approximately 6000 BC. They established one of the oldest known Mesolithic villages in Northern Europe.[2]