LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Scandinavian Peninsula: Baltic Sea
built 290 days ago
The Scandinavian Peninsula occupies part of the Baltic Shield, a stable and large crust segment formed of very old, crystalline metamorphic rocks. Most of the soil covering this substrate was scraped by glaciers during continental glaciation, especially in the northern part, where the shield is nearest the surface. As a consequence of this scouring, the elevation and the climate, a very small percentage of land is arable (3% in Norway).[8] The glaciers ... deepened river valleys, which were invaded by the sea when the ice melted, creating the famous fjords. In the south the glaciers deposited many sedimental deposits, configuring a very chaotic landscape.[9]
Source:
All of the Scandinavian peninsula is entirely above the 54th parallel and extends to just north of the 71st parallel. For comparison, in North America, Canada's Hudson Bay begins at about 54 degrees north latitude and goes only to about 63 degrees north latitude. This is about as far north as Östersund or Umeå, which are only about a third of the way to the northern end of the peninsula. In such far north regions, the growing season becomes drastically shorter there than just a little further south. For example, in the far north of Sweden, near Jokkmokk, the growing season is approximately four and a half months long as opposed to seven months near Uppsala in central Sweden and eight months near Lund in the far south of Sweden. (Mead 1958 : 149) The water of the Baltic provides a buffering effect on the temperatures in much the same way as the Great Lakes in North America do.
Source:
During 21 successive winters, 1978/79 - 1998/99, wolf population status, distribution and dynamics was monitored by snow tracking on the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sweden and Norway). The monitoring program involved cooperative Swedish-Norwegian fieldwork. Reports of sightings, tracks, and prey remains were ... checked. On one-day censuses, hundreds to several thousands of volunteers participated in the search for wolf tracks. After the 1978 reproduction in the reindeer management area of northern Sweden, all new pairs and packs were located in the south-central parts of the peninsula, from 1983 and onwards. At the end of the study, in winter 1998/99, the population estimate was 62 - 78 wolves, about a 20-fold increase from the three wolves counted in 1982.
Source:
The Scandinavian peninsula is located at the northwest corner of Europe and encloses the Baltic Sea. It extends from Russia and Finland in the north and almost reaches Denmark in the south. It contains the countries Norway on the west and Sweden on the east and is named from the Scandinavian mountain range separating the two countries.
Source:
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Its capital city is Stockholm. It is surrounded by Norway (west), Finland (northeast), the Skagerrak, Kattegat and Oresund straits (southwest) and the Baltic Sea (east). It has maritime borders with Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and it is ... linked to Denmark (southwest) by the Öresund Bridge. It has been a member of the European Union since 1995. Sweden has a low population density except in its metropolitan areas; 84 percent of the population lives in urban areas, which take up only 1.3 percent of the total land area.
Source:
Norway consists of the western and northern section of the Scandinavian peninsula, as well as the arctic island archipelago Svalbard and Jan Mayen. To the east of Norway lies Sweden, Finland and Russia. To the west, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Yo the north is the Barents Sea, to the south, the Nothe Sea. Norway is a constitutional monarchy with a population of 4,524,000 (2002). The capital city, oslo, has 512 000 inhabitants.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Baltic Sea