Uunisaari

This guide to Uunisaari, an island off Kaivopuisto in Helsinki, explains the irony behind its name, Oven Island, which for most of its working life had nothing to do with baking. You'll hear about the fish and seal oil works a ship captain built here in the 1870s, the varnish factory that later grew from it, and even a coffin shop that once operated on the same small rock. It also covers the sudden shift to a public swimming station in 1934 that drew crowds to a shoreline barely big enough for a picnic.