scandinavia travel blog Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/scandinavia-travel-blog Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 Scandinavia Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/scandinavia-guide-for-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/scandinavia-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:39:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228749 The large lakes of central Sweden are relics of the sea which once covered this area; but the abundant flow of water from many rivers has long removed any trace of salt. The great masses of ice, 2 km (1J miles) thick, bore down heavily on the underlying land, and when this pressure was relieved with the melting of the ice the land rose, most markedly in the middle of the area formerly covered by ice. Some 8500 years ago, therefore, the channels traversing central Sweden and Finland were raised above sea level and drained of water; and the Baltic

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