Qualla: Säppi https://qualla.com/sappi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/j/sappi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Säppi https://qualla.com/sappi Säppi: Introduction https://qualla.com/sappi/ Photo credit kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0. Mouflon belong to Mediterranean hillsides — Corsica, Sardinia, dry slopes above a warm sea. So it takes a moment to absorb what has been grazing the island of Säppi since 1949, when a hunting club from Reposaari carried a few of the wild sheep out across the Bothnian Sea and let them loose. They stayed. Several dozen now move through the spruce on 150 hectares of forest and rock, in a sea that freezes most winters. Säppi is one of only seven Finnish islands carrying an introduced mouflon population, and the sheep are not even the most surprising thing here.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/j/sappi-wp/u6zj-s-ppi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Säppi: Merchants First, Then a Light https://qualla.com/sappi/ Photo credit Lepax, Public domain. Pori's merchants put up the first marker in 1779, a wooden daymark meant to keep their ships off the rocks, and a hexagonal replacement followed in 1852. Neither carried a flame. That came in September 1873, when a brick tower designed by Axel Hampus Dalström was lit for the firs...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/j/sappi-wp/u6zj-s-ppi-merchants-first-then-a-light.mp3 0:06 2 full Säppi: Wool at the Wrong Latitude https://qualla.com/sappi/ Photo credit Pöllö, CC BY 3.0. The Reposaari hunters have leased the old pilot cottage since the late 1950s, and the mouflon are their doing. Introduced sheep on a small island cannot simply be abandoned to themselves, so the club has managed the herd ever since, taking a few animals each autumn. It is an odd ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/j/sappi-wp/u6zj-s-ppi-wool-at-the-wrong-latitude.mp3 0:06 3 full Säppi: The Second-Oldest Watch https://qualla.com/sappi/ Photo credit kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1959 the lighthouse keeper's dwelling took on a second life. A bird observatory opened inside it and is still running today, the second-oldest in Finland after Signilskär out in the Åland Sea, kept going by the Pori Ornithological Society. Autumn is the season that matters. Sä...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/j/sappi-wp/u6zj-s-ppi-the-second-oldest-watch.mp3 0:06 4 full Säppi: Fifteen Cows and a National Park https://qualla.com/sappi/ Photo credit Pöllö, CC BY 3.0. Every spring about fifteen Highland cattle are ferried out to graze. Shaggy and unhurried, they are working animals: conservation grazing keeps the shore meadows open for the plants and insects that depend on them, a job scythes did for centuries and nobody wants to do by hand no...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/j/sappi-wp/u6zj-s-ppi-fifteen-cows-and-a-national-park.mp3 0:06 5 full Säppi: The Dolphin on the North Shore https://qualla.com/sappi/ Photo credit kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0. In August 1997 someone walking the north shore found a dead dolphin. Not a porpoise — a common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, a male between five and seven years old, and only the second of its species ever recorded in Finnish waters. It emerged afterwards that a sea captain had see...

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