Lapland

[ lap-land ]

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noun

a region in northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the northwestern Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by the Sami.

Lapland

/ ˈlæpˌlænd /

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 Also called (informal)Land of the Midnight Sun

See Lapp.

M. Regnard says affirmatively, that the grey squirrels of Lapland are the same animals as the French squirrels.

In the north of this peninsula is Lapland, and in the south, Finland.

It is a long leap from Carnarvonshire to Lapland, where this story is told with no great variation.

We of the temperate zone can hardly endure the heat of the tropics, and we shiver at the very thought of Lapland.

Beds of white infusorial earth, resembling magnesia in appearance, known as Bergmehl, occur in Lapland and Finland.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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