Maxmo

It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Ostrobothnia region.

The former municipality had a population of 1,037 (2003) and covered an area of 148.06 km² of which one fourth was land.

The Kvarken Archipelago is continuously rising from the sea at a rate among the highest in the world.

In July 2006 Kvarken Archipelago was added as an extension to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of The High Coast.

The archipelago is unique in that it features ridged washboard moraines known as De Geer moraines, formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet 10,000 to 24,000 years ago.