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Lapland

an extensive region of N Europe, mainly within the Arctic Circle: consists of the N parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the extreme NW of Russia
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Lapland

northern region of Scandinavian peninsula, mostly within Arctic Circle. [Geography: Misc.]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Lapland

 

a region in northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the western part of Murmansk Oblast, USSR, north of 64°-66° N lat. It is the basic area of settlement of the Saam or Lapps.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Northern Norway is known as the "land of the midnight sun" and it is thanks to these extreme conditions that this seaweed develops the peculiar properties that make it unique.
In the far north, of course, it's the land of the midnight sun and the sun never falls below the horizon.
Chapter Nine, "In the Land of the Midnight Sun," is about a solar specialist named Eigils Friis-Christensen who states that the "IPCC refused to consider the sun's influence on climate as a topic worthy of investigation." However, the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report includes the statement, "Changes in solar irradiance since 1750 are estimated to cause a radiative forcing of +0.12 [+0.06 to +0.30] W[m.sup.-2], which is less than half the estimate ...
After learning in the winter to hunt for seal and make new snowshoes and clothes, she learns in the brief, beautiful summer to kayak and to love the land of the midnight sun. But she also discovers how homesick she is for the woodland.
International property sales and marketing company, Grosvenor Overseas, has advised the Swedish developer, Klovsjofjall AB, on the ways in which the resort should be developed as a world-class resort to meet the demands of British investors seeking holiday homes, or buy-to-let properties in the "Land of the Midnight Sun".
Or venture to the Land of the Midnight Sun on a 10-night voyage to the Norwegian fjords.
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Seven VFA-14 Super Hornets had left NAS Lemoore, Calif., following two Air Force KC-135s on the five-hour flight to the land of the midnight sun. The missions flown included an assortment of dissimilar aircraft training, simulated air-to-ground attacks and participation in large strike packages with Air Force assets.
Then it's time for the grand old lady to ease back her turbines and settle for a more sedate life in gentler waters -the fjords of Norway and the Land of the Midnight Sun, the eastern Med and its ancient cradles of civilisation.
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And they do, during nine days each June at the North Norway Festival, the biggest arts festival in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Several thousand visitors travel annually to the town of Harstad, situated a cool 188 miles north of the Arctic Circle, to experience the work of 100 to 130 artists.
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