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 The Aurora Borealis (c)
photo by Hans Sivenius by Fjord87
Winter in Rovaniemi is cold - usually something between -5 and -25 degrees celsius. We have a lot of snow. The winters are dark and we have the so called "Kaamos", dark period when sun never gets above the horizon. This is because the Earth is tilted on it's axis: northern and southern areas are either really sunny or really dark, depending on the season. In the winter we have beautiful natural lights: the beautiful Aurora Borealis. Winter is from November to the half of April.
Spring is warmer than winter, from -8 to +8 degrees, (warmer in the end of the spring), but there's still enough snow! Springtime starts in the second half of April, and lasts until the first days of June. During the spring snow starts melting and sun starts shining more & more. Snow reflects the sun beautifully and there's light everywhere! Early spring is the best time to do wintersports. When it comes closer to June, snow has melted and the summer starts.
Summer is lovely. In the summer people get active. It's about +18 to +30 degrees warm. Usually it's sunny, but there can be cloudy summers too. In the midsummer Finland is best!!! People are active and happy and there's a big midsummer feast all over Finland (June 21st). Summer lasts from June till mid-August.
Autumn is a colourful season. All trees turn yellow and red, and the ground gets covered in berries and mushrooms. Also the grass-root plants get painted in red and brown. The weather can be from +18 to -8 celsius, depending on what stage of autumn we are. From mid-August to September the autumn is lovely, but October is probably the ugliest month of the year, because it's so dark, the leafs from the trees have dropped and the snow hasn't come yet. But the whole year apart from October is lovely!
The best time to come is either in March-April, or from late June to the mid-July. Leave a Comment
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Rovaniemi is located in the branch of two rivers, Ounasjoki and Kemijoki (joki = river). The city is surrounded by fjelds, small mountains or big hills. Because Rovaniemi is only 8 kilometers south from the Arctic Circle, it is mostly surrounded by evergreen conifer forests. The city is not very wide, and only 5 kilometers from the town, where I live, the landscape has merged into forests instead of roads.
There are also many small lakes around Rovaniemi, and people have summercottages around them.
Finland is said to be the country of thousand lakes and neverending forests. The truth is, that we have 180 times 1000 lakes!! 180 000!! Can you believe that? I dropped from my chair when I heard that.
There are about 42 000 different species of animals, plants and fungi in Finland. Here are some examples of them.
Large mammals: moose, bear, wolf, lynx, reindeer, deer.
Medium mammals: hare, fox, beaver, pine marten, wolverine.
Small mammals: mouse, shrew, lemming, stoat.
Large birds: swan, pheasant, goose, eagles, hawks, owls.
Medium birds: crow, raven, magpie, goldeneye, duck, woodpecker
Small birds: great git, robin, blue tit, yellow-hammer
Insects: mosquitoes, ladybugs, small butterflies, bumblebees, wasps... about 20 000 different species, but none of them are really hazardous or horribly big.
Amphibians: lizard, frogs, viper (the only poisonous snake).
Fish: salmon, pike, perch, whitefish, bream, baltic herring..
Because Rovaniemi's nature is very similar to the nature in the rest of Finland, this page will be very useful to you if you wanna know more:
http://virtual.finland.fi/Nature_Environment/
And on this page you can see sattelite map of Rovaniemi: (later) Leave a Comment
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 Arctic Centre - Modern
Architecture by Fjord87
The new city plan was made by the famous Finnish architecht/designer Alvar Aalto. The city plan is made in the shape of a head of reindreer. The main sportsfield is the eye and the roads going away from Rovaniemi are the horns.
Nowadays Rovaniemi has many building project and many buildings are very modern. The coolest architectural buildings are probably the Jätkänkynttilä - bridge and Arktikum, the Arctic Centre Museum. I'll write about these two to my Rovaniemi-page as soon as possible! :)
If you want to learn more about the history of Rovaniemi go to page:
http://www.rovaniemi.fi/historia/ Leave a Comment
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 Luminated ice - sculptures by Fjord87
Rovaniemi homepage in English
www.rovaniemi.fi/?deptid=3694<br />
Rovaniemi online weather (in Finnish, but it has figures)
www.foreca.com/fin/saa/index.php?c=fin&spot=Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi online weather (in English)
http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?Keywords=&kunta=Rovaniemi¶m=T&neito=1
Currency converter. Remember: Finland has euros!!
http://www.xe.net/ucc/
Finlands train system homepage in english
http://www.vr.fi/heo/eng/index.html
Accomodation finder
http://www.accomodation.ws/Rovaniemi.php
Rovaniemi hotels
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-483021-rovaniemi_hotels-i
LaplandTourism - excellent page
http://www.laplandfinland.com/contentparser.asp?deptid=7405<br />
...more coming up... Leave a Comment
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 by novsco61
Santa is anxious to keep his secrets; they are, after all, an important part of the Christmas story. But a traveller who happened to be passing about a hundred years ago brought news that soon spread of the mountain and its inhabitants. Santa wanted to make sure his hiding place was not invaded with visitors and hit upon a brilliant idea that would allow all his friends and anyone who loved Christmas to come and meet him. About half a century ago he began making regular visits to the Arctic Circle just outside the town of Rovaniemi.
Korvatunturi lies far, far away in the wilds of Lapland, but then if you live down south, the Arctic Circle may seem a long way away. And because Santa doesn’t want anyone to be disappointed, he has promised to be at his Office on the Arctic Circle every single day of the year, ready to receive friends from near and far. Leave a Comment
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 by novsco61
letters from Santa Claus are
collector’s items? Many people
frame theirs and hang them on
the wall.
You can buy the letter from well-equiped shops at the Arctic Circle or order it from the Internet-pages of Santa Claus Greeting Center
Santa Claus’ letter costs 6.95 €.
In his letter, Santa Claus tells about his life here at the Arctic Circle. Also he tells something about his elves hobbies and all nice things that happen in Santa Claus Land.
There is also a little surprise besides the letter.
Santa Claus sends out this beautiful Christmas Greeting Letter in a choice of 13 languages and you can order it for a friend, child or adult anywhere in the world. Leave a Comment
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 Only 2.200 km? by AndyRG
Since the end of 1998, Santa Park was opened to the crowd, it must be another magical world, next to Santa Claus' Village (for further details go to "www.santapark.com"). Leave a Comment
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 Unbelievable! by AndyRG
At least, I saw with my own eyes the phenomenon of being day almost 24 hours, as it was summer (the opposite happens during the winter, the northern the most impressive). Leave a Comment
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 by Gili_S
The University of Lapland Leave a Comment
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 by Gili_S
The official site is in Finnish and English
www.rovaniemi.fi Leave a Comment
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