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Fejan
FEJAN HAS A VERY EXCITING and interesting modern history, stretching from the end of the nineteenth century. At that time, a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Europe and the Swedish authorities decided that the disease should be stopped at the country's borders.
The East coast's quarantine station was garrisoned at Fejan. During the summer of 1892, a hospital, Wasa, was built in great haste, in addition to a number of other buildings, i.e. a medical house, which was initially intended to be a mission station in the Congo.
Probably the most famous event on Fejan around this time was when ”Orphei Drängar” was interned here, after a concert tour of the East in 1894. A fellow passenger on the steamer 'von Döbeln' from St. Petersburg had contracted cholera during the journey and died on arrival at Fejan. The OD-ers formed a choir during their weeks on the island, to which they gave the macabre name "The Cholera Tour Singers".
On Fejan can be found one of the archipelago's most popular youth hostels, a high-class restaurant, a fish smokery and kajak hire.