Lapland, the northern border
Lapland, zone of nights without days and days without nights. To the north of the Arctic Circle, the territory of the Sami people covers 400,000 square kilometres of Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland. In this area the sun does not exceed the horizon for 50 days of the year. However, the nights in Lapland are colourful, because on endless nights the darkness is embellished by the green, blue and violet colours of the Northern Lights.
The most representative color of this wide area is white. During the 250 days of the year the snow hides the ground. At 700-800 meters from the sea, the Lapland Plateau is cold enough to impede the life of the trees. Lichens and mosses cover the ground. The climate here is polar, and during long winters the mercury from the thermometers is kept under zero; between 3 and 30 degrees below zero. The average temperature is 19 degrees below zero. Precipitation is scarce. It receives 400 milliliters of rain per year, but there is no lack of water. Lapland is dotted with several lakes and some are immensely large: Lake Inari has a thousand square kilometers.
The glacial erosion of the quaternary was the main causative agent of the morphology of Lapland. The current topography is caused by this erosion. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean and the Baltic Sea, the landscape is green with pine and fir forests as we approach the sea. The fjords on the shore are spectacular. The canyon made by the Altaeva River on the way from the plateau to the fjord is one of the largest in Europe.
The northern border of Europe is in Lapland. The North Cape is frequented by thousands of tourists who believe that it is the northernmost part of the continent. But they're wrong. The North Cape is located on an island and to tread the northernmost corner of the continent you have to go to Nordkinn.
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