Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Lapland


Related Topics

  
  The Sami and Lapland - Scandinavica.com
Lapland is the name of a region in north Europe that belongs to Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
There is snow from November to May. Live webcams in Lapland »..
- The clear skies of Finnish Lapland are ideal to admire the endless daylight of the Midnight Sun and the magic Northern Lights in winter.
www.scandinavica.com /sami.htm   (772 words)

  
  Lapland Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lappi, or the Province of Lapland is one of the Provinces of Finland, and a part of the larger geographical area of Lapland, which spans over four countries.
The biggest towns in the Finnish Lapland are Rovaniemi (the provincial capital), Kemi, and Tornio.
Lapland was separated from the province of Oulu in 1936.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lapland,_Finland   (347 words)

  
 Lapland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lapland, (also Lappland, Lappi, Sápmi, Sameland, and Saamiland) Lappia in some historical writings and maps, is the name of the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sami people.
Lapland is located in Northern Europe and includes the northern parts of Scandinavia and the Kola peninsula in Russia.
Lapland demonstrates a distinct semi-national identity that transcends the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lapland   (1357 words)

  
 Lapland Forest Damage Project: Conclusions
The most typical characteristic of the pollution climate in Finnish Lapland is in the occasional rises in the concentrations of atmospheric sulphur dioxide to fairly high levels when the winds blow from the north-east or east, where the Kola Peninsula's industrial centres lie.
Lapland's high, at maximum 100- 150 µg/m3, concentrations of ozone (levels which have demonstrably caused damage to vegetation in experimental conditions) are not caused by pollutant emissions from the Kola Peninsula.
The vitality of the forests in Finnish Lapland is subject to variation: the needle-loss symptom of the late 1980s has receded, but the weather conditions of the early 1990s suggest that the Scleroderris canker fungus cause increasing damage in the near future.
www.metla.fi /julkaisut/muut/elproj/concl.html   (3454 words)

  
 :: Lappi :: Lapland :: Lappland :: Laponie ::   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lapland is 98 937 km², this large area represents 30% of Finland’s total land area, of this area 93 057 km² is land and 5 880 km² is water.
Rovaniemi is Lapland’s administrative capital with 35 427 (31.12.2000) inhabitants.
Approximately a quarter of Lapland’s 100 000 strong workforce was unemployed in 1997.
www.laplandfinland.com /?deptid=16048   (549 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Lapland, Scandinavia (Scandinavian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Lapland is mountainous in N Norway and Sweden, reaching its highest point (6,965 ft/2,123 m) in Kebnekaise (Sweden), and consists largely of tundra in the northeast.
Lapland is very rich in mineral resources, particularly in high-grade iron ore at GAllivare and Kiruna (Sweden), in copper at Sulitjelma (Norway), and in nickel and apatite in Russia.
Kirkenes and Narvik (both in Norway) are the chief maritime outlets for Scandinavian Lapland, and Murmansk is the port for Russian Lapland.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lapland.html   (539 words)

  
 Lapland War: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Lapland War is a name used for the hostilities between Finland[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] and Germany[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] between September 1944 and April 1945.
The area of petsamo (pechenga, in russian) in northern lapland, indigenously inhabited by sami...
Rovaniemi (roavenjarga in sami) is the administrative capital and the centre of commerce of finlands northernmost province, lapland....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lapland_war.htm   (1134 words)

  
 Lapland Holidays | Holidays in Lapland | Lapland Trips
Lapland is a popular city in Sweden that has occupied a whole part of the north of Scandinavia.
Swedish Lapland is delimited by the Norwegian and Finnish borders and extends to the Gulf of Bothnia.
Lapland is probably best known as the home of Santa Claus, indeed a visit to Santa World at Mora in Dalarna is what most children dream of.
www.stayressweden.com /lapland.htm   (207 words)

  
 Lapland articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The northernmost city in Sweden, it is the center of the Lapland iron-mining region.
24,633), Lapland prov., W central Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia at the mouth of the Kemijoki River.
23,285), Lapland prov., NW Finland, at the mouth of the Torneälv on the Gulf of Bothnia.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/07224.html   (382 words)

  
 Lapland, Norway
The name of Lapland is applied to the northern part of Scandinavia, extending over parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
Lapland is beautiful, but it has a character of its own which finds expression in sudden and violent changes in the weather.
One possible hazard for motorists in Lapland is a collision with an elk or reindeer.
www.planetware.com /norway/lapland-n-fnm-lpl.htm   (639 words)

  
 Lapland (Finland)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
pink, but in the modern coat of arms of province (lääni, län) of Lapland and in the coat of arms of the county (maakunta, landskap) the man is silver (in flag white).
In the earliest known use of the arms of Lapland, at the funeral of King Carl IX in 1611, the wildman was fl.
Originally, the arms were the same, because Lapland was one province until 1809, when it was split in two and what now is Finnish Lapland was ceded to Russia along with Finland and was made a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fi-l.html   (282 words)

  
 Lapland
Reindeer are released in the spring and wander the open range of Lapland during late spring, summer and fall.
Lapland is considered the land of diary cattle and the herding of some 300,000 head of reindeer.
The entrance to the Arktikum, the new Artic Center and Lapland Provincial Museum.
www.wathenadesigns.com /Finland/Towns/Lapland/lapland.html   (518 words)

  
 Lapland Holidays | Christmas Holidays in Lapland | Santa Claus | Lapland Tours | Iglulapland.com
Visit the Arctic home of Santa Claus with a Lapland holiday and experience the thrill of reindeer sleigh rides and snowmobiling against the backdrop of a magical snowscape.
Iglulapland.com offers a wide selection of Lapland holidays to a variety of resorts including the well loved villages of Levi, Ylläs and Rovaniemi.
On your Lapland holiday you can enjoy a wide selection of Lapland activities from husky sledding and reindeer sleigh rides to visiting Santa in his Post Office.
www.iglulapland.com   (338 words)

  
 Santa´s Lapland and Christmas Club
Lapland consists of the northernmost parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway.
But in Finnish Lapland a reindeer is a very common animal and it has a lot of food there.
Lapland is a paradise for all nature lovers!
groups.msn.com /965172qg02rbm4ek3a6e7udur5/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us   (602 words)

  
 Why choose a Lapland Experience Santa Holiday   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lapland Experience are the only company to have personally invested in excess of £400,000 in Lapland to make their day
Certainly no airport facilities are perfect but Lapland Experience offer the best of what there is and their ground suppliers have invested money to provide that service.
Continuing on the theme of why Lapland Experience offer the best when it comes to overnight tours we were fortunate to be the first to really feature tours in December to Lapland.
www.laplandexperience.com /html/why_lapland_experience.html   (1008 words)

  
 :: Travel Bureu Lapland Travel Ltd :: Matkatoimisto Lapin Matkailu Oy :: www.laplandtravel.fi :: www.lapinmatkailu.fi ::
Lapland Travel LTD, founded in 1967, is travel agency specializing in Lapland.
Lapland Travel LTD makes the wonders of Lapland easily available all year round, with a single call.
The wide range of hotels in Lapland is on your use.
www.lapinmatkailu.fi /?deptid=12719   (259 words)

  
 ::Lapland Trips to the twilight world inside the Arctic Circle :: Santa Trips.com::
There are, but only a few places in Lapland where one can imagine the location to be the home of Santa Claus and its no wonder why Santa chose Olos as one of his special homes in Lapland.
At the very edge of the vast wilderness of snow-clad forest and moors, extending far across the nearby border of Russia, it may be some 250 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, but this very attractive resort's hotel and tourist facilities offer a warm hospitality that is in marked contrast to the frozen landscapes.
One of Finnish Lapland's oldest and most picturesque winter resorts, Yllas is a peaceful place, largely untainted by commercialism.
www.santatrips.com /short-stays/resorts.htm   (776 words)

  
 :: Lapland Hotels :: www.laplandhotels.com
Lapland Hotels is the perfect choice for your holiday in Lapland.
At Lapland Hotels we want to offer you exotic Lappish experiences far from your everyday routine that you will remember for years to come.
Lapland Hotels Kilpis offers a variety of ready made route suggestions to nearby Norway.
www.laplandhotels.com /?deptid=8144   (344 words)

  
 Lapland day trips. Holidays in Lapland, Activity breaks, skiing, husky safari's accommodation in hotels or log cabins.
Throughout Lapland and northern Finland an amazing range of activities is on offer whatever time of year you choose to visit.
While travelling around the region you often see reindeer that are free to roam and feed but to learn more about them and to see them up close we suggest a visit to a reindeer farm.
Reindeer herders and their families usually run the reindeer farms, some are Sami, the indigenous Lapland inhabitants who still rely on reindeer for their livelihood and income.
www.emagine-travel.co.uk /holidays-in-lapland/lapland-home.asp   (1230 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Train kills two on Lapland safari
The two, a 14-year-old girl and an 17-year-old boy, were among 18 Italian tourists, on a dog sleigh safari in Korpikyla, near the Arctic Circle.
Lapland - the fabled home of Santa Claus - is a popular tourist destination in winter.
The young Italians' parents were also in the group and were taken to nearby Haparanda in Sweden after the incident.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/4562040.stm   (188 words)

  
 Lapin yliopisto - University of Lapland - Lapplands universitet : Ulapland.fi/In English/Units/International Studies ...
Our main responsibilities are to coordinate all international education offered at the University of Lapland and to create new multi-disciplinary study programmes for degree students.
As a member of the University of the Arctic, the University of Lapland offers its students the possibility to study for a Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies. More information on this programme is available by selecting the logo below.
A printed version of the Study in Lapland guidebook is also available upon request.
www.ulapland.fi /isc   (275 words)

  
 Lapland Hotels of Finland Selects MICROS for Next Generation Enterprise Solution
Lapland Hotels is utilizing the OPERA Property Management System, along with OPERA Reservation System (ORS) and myfidelio.net for its central and distribution services.
Direct and myfidelio.net distribution via http://www.laplandhotels.com is made possible using the OPERA Web Suite, which allows direct interaction between bookers on the Internet and Lapland Hotels' inventory and rates.
Lapland Hotels has 9 characteristic hotels in 6 municipalities of Lapland with well equipped rooms that include private saunas, family rooms, suites, apartments and log cabins all close to nature.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-15-2006/0004320496&EDATE=   (629 words)

  
 Swedish Lapland : Introduction | Frommers.com
Swedish Lapland, or Norrland, as the Swedes call it, is Europe's last wilderness -- 9,400 sq.
This wild, undisturbed domain of the midnight sun is a land of high mountains and plateaus; endless forests and vast swamplands; crystal-blue lakes and majestic mountains; and glaciers, waterfalls, rushing rivers, and forests.
Like the Grand Canyon and the Galapagos Islands, Lapland, whose natural wonders include a population of brown bear and alpine flora, is listed as a World Heritage Site.
www.frommers.com /destinations/swedishlapland/3271010001.html   (317 words)

  
 Flights to Lapland [charterflights.co.uk]
Charter Flights to Lapland from the UK Father Christmas is usually what springs to mind when most people think about Lapland.
Ivalo Airport is the northernmost airport in Finland and Lapland’s oldest tourist airport.
However long you choose to stay, this is a majestical place filled with excitement and the hustle and bustle of Santa’s helpers.
www.charterflights.co.uk /flights/lapland   (611 words)

  
 Christmas Lapland Holidays with day trips Lapland Santa Claus meet Father Christmas in Lapland
Lapland is one of the world's truly magical places, where the snow lies deep and crisp, reflecting the shimmering wonders of the Northern Lights.
Meeting Santa Claus in his own Lapland home is every child's dream.
To find out more about Lapland, click here.
www.christmas-lapland-holidays.co.uk   (305 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.