Lapland news

Municipal tax rates hit hardest in Lapland

Helsingin Sanomat - Feb 17, 2012
The numbers also show that regionally speaking these community charges hit hardest on people living in communities in Lapland. For a wage-earner family making just over EUR 80000 annually before tax, the difference between living in Lapland and living ...

It's a boy!

YLE News

YLE News - Feb 16, 2012
It has now been determined that a polar bear cub born at Ranua Wildlife Park in Lapland in November is a young male. Zookeepers who have been keeping watch on the cub and mother via closed-circuit camera say it is definitely a boy.

Schoolgirl dies in ski accident on the eve of skiing holiday season

Helsingin Sanomat - Feb 17, 2012
The break is staggered such that those in Central Finland are off in Week 9, and pupils in Northern Karelia, North Savo, and Lapland are free in Week 10. The idea is to avoid insufferable queues at ski-resorts in Lapland and elsewhere in the north, ...

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Lapland books

Lapland, 2nd

by: James Proctor

Spanning the northernmost fringes of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, Lapland offers exciting winter and summer adventures. Take in the indigenous Sámi culture, experience a husky safari, or snorkel alongside killer whales. Scandinavia enthusiast James Proctor leads visitors across magical frozen scenery, from the world-famous ICEHOTEL and the stunning Laponia World Heritage area to the Arctic's midnight sun—24 hours of unbroken sunlight.
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland

by: Barbara Sjoholm
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.

Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the North Cape, she encounters increasing darkness and cold, but also radiant light over the mountains and snow fields. She crosses the Finnmark Plateau by dogsled, attends a Sami film festival (with an outdoor ice screen), and visits Santa's Post Office in Finland.
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Lapland: A Natural History

by: Derek Ratcliffe
This is the first book in English to offer a full account of the natural history of Lapland, a broad region that encompasses parts of Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The book includes an overview of the region and its flora and fauna, its biogeography, and a history of human impact from the visitation of the first naturalists to the pollution, climate change, and conservation efforts taking place today.
Separate chapters examine each of the six main types of habitat in Lapland: boreal forests, forest peatlands, lakes and rivers, coastlands, tundra, and modified/human-influenced areas.
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Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland

by: Roger Took
Russian Lapland, a region of amazing contrasts. Here lies the last true wilderness of Europe, a rich and pristine ecosystem teeming with bird and animal life. But here too lie the dark, satanic mills of the former Soviet Union and the rotting remnants of nuclear submarines. Running with Reindeer is the first account in over a century to describe life in this harsh but beautiful land. Living among remote reindeer-herding and hunting families, Roger Took spends a decade following the lives and traditions of the indigenous Lapps, or Saami.
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Lapland videos

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Santa's Home Town - Winter in Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland

The Blue Snowflake - Winter in Rovaniemi, Santa Claus' home town in Lapland in Finland. Video with Santa Clause / Father Christmas, reindeer ride, snowmobile, husky dogs, etc in the arctic nature.

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Holidays to Lapland from Cosmos Holidays

The leading Independent Tour Operator in the UK offers fantastic day trips and short breaks to magical Lapland. Visit www.cosmos.co.uk for more details or see you your local travel agent

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The Reindeer of Lapland

Find out more about reindeer and how they came to be Santa's animal of choice.

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Reindeer farmers in Lapland - Johnny Goes to Lapland - BBC

Johnny Kingdom heads for Utsjoki, a tiny Sámi village, where father and son reindeer farmers Eero and Mika Lansman are feeding the pregnant females. Johnny is surpised to discover that unlike their red deer counterparts, the female reindeer have antlers. Visit www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth YouTube channel here www.youtube.com

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