Bakkatjörn was protected in 2000. Bakkatjörn is an ice salt pond and has been that way since 1960 when the clay inlet that was there was closed off. A depression called Rásin (The Channel) once connected Bakkatjörn and Seftjörn, but the latter has now disappeared under urbanization.

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