Sweden Photo Gallery - Weeks 7~8

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1 - Crossing notional line of Arctic
 Circle near to Jokkmokk
2 - Ripening Lingonberries
     (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
3 - Northern Wolfsbane
(Aconitum septentrionalis)
4 - Distinctive ridge-end peak of
Kasssavare (957m) from Årrenjarke

5 - Approaching road's end at the
 isolated settlement of Kvikkjokk
6 - Årrenjarke Fjällby-Camping
    overlooking Saggat lake
7 - Morning sun sparkling in waters
 of Saggat lake at Årrenjarke
8 - Morning cloud-scape along
   the Lille Luleälven valley

 
9 - Buck reindeer grazing road-side
  forest along Lille Luleälven valley
10 - 2 km board-walk through forest
 to Easy Elsie crash-site
11 - Cloudberry - ripe fruit
  (
Rubus chamaemorus)
12 - Marshy forest clearing crash-
 site with remains of Lancaster

 
13 - Remains of RAF Lancaster
at its marshland crash site
14 - Flak damaged wing and
fuselage with RAF roundel
15 - Crash site in Lapland bog of
 RAF WW2 Lancaster Easy Elsie
16 - Wild-camp at abandoned
 village of Harsprånget

 
17 - Harsprånget rock-fill dam curving around head of Harsprånget gorge 18 - Board-walk descending
 Harsprånget Gorge
19 - Precipitous rocky walls of
 now dry Harsprånget Gorge
20 - Monumental building of
Porjus Old Power Station

 
21 - Turbine in Porjus HEP Station
underground generating hall
22 - Generator and drive shaft in
 Porjus Power Station machine hall
23 - Inlandsbanan curving past
Porjus dam and New Power Station
24 - Wild-camp on banks of
Kalixälven river at Lappeasuando

 
25 - Declining sun reflected in
 Kalixälven river at Lappeasuando
26 - LKAB iron ore mine
 dominating the city of Kiruna
27 - Empty hopper wagons awaiting
 re-filling with ore pellets at Kiruna
28 - Western mountainous horizon
    from Luossovaara hill

 
29 - Kiruna's present City Hall, due for
demolition due to mining subsidence
30 - Kiruna's wooden church, also
due for relocation due to subsidence
31 - Swedish Sámi Parliament 32 - Modernistic altar paintings at
 1608 Jukkasjärvi wooden church

 
33 - Sandlövs Camping, Karesuando
    on our sunny stay in 2015
34 - Muonionjoki river along
Tornedalen valley Finnish border
35 - Pajala Camping on the banks
  of the Torneälven river
36 - The world's largest sun dial
  in Pajala village

 
37 - Crossing the Arctic Circle
south near to Överkalix
38 - Breakfast on a sunny morning
 at Selholmens Camping at Älvsbyn
39 - Steepest section of
 Storforsen Rapids
40 - Lower Storforsen Rapids
   on Piteälven river

 
41 - View from the board-walk
across Storforsen Rapids
42 - Stoneberry - ripe fruits
     (Rubus saxatilis)
43 - Sun catching spray over
Storforsen Rapids creating rainbow
44 - Rainbow effect created by
 spray over Storforsen Rapids
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