| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
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There's now an official count of the lakes in Finland. The exact number escapes me now but it was something around 180000 (one hundred eighty thousand). Though, I must admit, they did count even very small ones.
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| 36.1 | And how many islands? | TLE::SAVAGE | Fri Jan 17 1986 15:15 | 4 | |
Along the coast, Norway is reported to have about 50,000 islands, of which only 2000 are inhabited. NS | |||||
| 36.2 | Who's counting those Finnish lakes? | TLE::SAVAGE | Fri Jan 17 1986 23:25 | 8 | |
Re: .0: The Finnish Tourist Board claims only 62,000 lakes for Finland, and states that many of these are interconnected. They must be counting just those of 1 acre (0.4 hectare) or more. Neil | |||||
| 36.3 | GYCSC1::ORA | Ora J�rvinen GTC Munich | Tue Jan 21 1986 02:52 | 8 | |
The limit used to arrive to that number was in that order of magnitude, but I really cannot recall the exact size. The often mentioned number 60000 is what I learned in school; but actually the lakes had never been officially counted. Yes. Many (most) of them are interconnected. | |||||
| 36.4 | Lakes, anyone? | AJAX::JJOHNSON | Jim Johnson | Tue Mar 18 1986 21:10 | 16 |
Found some more information about that in a back issue of Suomen
Kuvalehti (a Finnish newsmagazine). The exact number is 187 888.
The counting job was performed by two part-time workers in the
University of Jyvaskyla (umlauts on the a's) and the head of the
project was Mikko Raatikainen, the ecology and environment protection
professor in the same university. They used maps with 1:20 000
scale, and the minimum area requirement for a puddle to qualify
was 5 ares (about .125 acres). Incidentally, if you take one hectare
as the minimum area, the count drops to 56 012, which is approximately
the familiar number that we learned in school. Finland shares 182
lakes with Russia,120 lakes with Norway and 13 with Sweden. The
average area of a Finnish lake is 18 hectares.
Another piece of Finnish trivia in the same category: there is 30
meters of shoreline for every Finn (4.9 million of us).
Sirkku
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| 36.5 | What really matters... | HANDEL::JOBRIEN | Wed Aug 27 1986 15:54 | 0 | |