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Utö (Finland)
Utö () is a small island in the Archipelago Sea in the Baltic sea and belongs to Finland's Pargas municipality. It is the southernmost year-round inhabited island in Finland. Utö has an area of and the population was 40 (). Name The name of the island, ''Utö'', means "outer island" in Swedish. Description The island has a lighthouse, pilot station, a small guest harbour, a shop and a post office. The island is also known from the marine weather observations that began in 1881. Due to the remoteness of the island, the island has its own local school. In former times, the Finnish Defence Forces kept a small station on the island, but left the island in 2005. The island is also known as the first rescue station of the Estonia disaster in September 1994, and also helped rescue the survivors of the SS Park Victory sinking. Climate The annual average temperature (1981–2010 data) at Utö is , with mean annual precipitation . Average snow-covered period last from 23 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Park Victory
The SS ''Park Victory'' was a Victory-class cargo ship built during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The ship was operated by the Seas Shipping Company. The ship launched on April 21, 1945, near the end of the war. The ship was named in honor of Park College (now Park University), one of 150 educational institutions that had Victory ships named after them. Park College was selected as a training center for the V-12 Navy College Training Program from 1943 to 1945. This partnership between the Navy and Park College may have led to the naming of a ship in the college's honor. In reciprocation, Park College donated $300 to buy 120 books for the library aboard the ''Park Victory''. The launching ceremony on April 21, 1945 was attended by several Park alumni. In 1946 the SS ''Park Victory'' was converted to livestock carrier, manned by sea cowboys. The ''Park Victory'' loaded up with 485 horses and 322 heifers and steamed out of Baltimore on October 25, 1945. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virmajärvi
Lake Virmayarvi (russian: Вирмаярви; fi, Virmajärvi) is a small ( long) lake straddling the border between Finland (Ilomantsi municipality) and Russia ( Suoyarvsky District, Republic of Karelia). It is located east of the village of Hattuvaara Hattuvaara is a village in Ilomantsi municipality in the province of Eastern Finland, about 40 km north-east from the municipality centre and near the border with Russia. It is the most eastern village in Finland and in the continental part o .... The easternmost point of Finland and of the Schengen Area and of the continental European Union is located on an island in the lake. Virmayarvi LVirmayarvi Finland–Russia border Virmayarvi Landforms of North Karelia Lakes of Ilomantsi {{RepublicofKarelia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuorgam
Nuorgam () is a village in the Utsjoki municipality in the region of Lapland, Finland. It has approximately 200 inhabitants. It is the northernmost point of Finland and the northernmost point of the European Union. It is situated on the Deatnu river ( fi, Teno, no, Tana), which is very popular for salmon fishing. Nuorgam is located near the villages of Utsjoki and Tana. The nearest cities are Murmansk, Rovaniemi, Hammerfest, Alta and Tromsø. History The origin of the name ''Njuorggán'' is unclear. ''Nuorgam'' is a Finnish adaptation of the original Northern Sámi name. The first settler in the area originated from Buolbmát Polmak ( and ) is a village in Tana Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county in Norway. The village is located on the south shore of the river Tana, just east of the border with Finland (and the northernmost point of Finland). The village is ... in Norway, arriving in the area in the late 18th century. The surname ''Nuorgam'', used since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märket
Märket ("The Mark", ) is a small uninhabited skerry in the Baltic Sea shared by Sweden and Finland (in the area of the autonomous region Åland), with a lighthouse as its salient humanmade feature. Märket has been divided between the two countries since the Treaty of Fredrikshamn of 1809 defined the border between Sweden and the Russian Empire as going through the middle of the island. The Finnish side of the island is part of the Municipality of Hammarland and is the westernmost land point of Finland. The Swedish part of the island is itself divided by two counties of Sweden: Uppsala County (Östhammar Municipality) and Stockholm County (Norrtälje Municipality). Geography and history The '' Understen–Märket Passage'' links the Bothnian Sea to the Baltic proper. The skerry is roughly long by wide, and its area is about . It is the smallest sea island shared by two countries. It used to have a straight border until the Grand Duchy of Finland built the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogskär
Bogskär is a small group of Baltic Sea islets off the southernmost tip of Finland. It is Finland's southernmost land and governed by the municipality of Kökar in Åland. The islets are remote: the distance to the nearest large islands in Kökar, Föglö and Lemland is over . Bogskär is so remote that it is located outside the internal waters of Finland, and has its own, separate internal waters. Up to 1995, even its territorial waters The term territorial waters is sometimes used informally to refer to any area of water over which a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potent ... were separate from the rest of Finland. When the territorial waters were expanded from a limit of to , the territorials waters merged. Even today, territorial waters extend only south of Bogskär. See also * Bogskär Lighthouse References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogskar Landforms of Åland Finnish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A marginal sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two water bodies, the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish Straits into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, Great Belt and Little Belt. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga and the Bay of Gdańsk. The " Baltic Proper" is bordered on its northern edge, at latitude 60°N, by Åland and the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga, and in the west by the Swedish part of the southern Scandinavian Peninsula. The Baltic Sea is connected by artificial waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea–Baltic Canal and to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köppen Climate Classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. Later, the climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced some changes to the classification system, which is thus sometimes called the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system. The Köppen climate classification divides climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on seasonal precipitation and temperature patterns. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (temperate), ''D'' (continental), and ''E'' (polar). Each group and subgroup is represented by a letter. All climates are assigned a main group (the first letter). All climates except for those in the ''E'' group are assigned a seasonal precipitation subgroup (the second letter). For example, ''Af'' indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humid Continental Climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters. Precipitation is usually distributed throughout the year but often do have dry seasons. The definition of this climate regarding temperature is as follows: the mean temperature of the coldest month must be below or depending on the isotherm, and there must be at least four months whose mean temperatures are at or above . In addition, the location in question must not be semi-arid or arid. The cooler ''Dfb'', ''Dwb'', and ''Dsb'' subtypes are also known as hemiboreal climates. Humid continental climates are generally found between latitudes 30° N and 60° N, within the central and northeastern portions of North America, Europe, and Asia. They are rare and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia Disaster
The MS ''Estonia'' sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 (UTC+2) as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden. The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.Boesten, E. (2006): The M/S Estonia Disaster and the Treatment of Human Remains. In: Bierens, J.J.L.M. (ed.): ''Handbook on Drowning'': 650–652. . It is one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a European ship, after the in 1912 and the in 1914, and the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in European waters, with 852 lives lost. Sinking ''Estonia'' departed slightly behind schedule at 19:15 on 27 September and was expected in Stockholm the next morning at about 09:00. She was carrying 989 people: 803 passengers and 186 crew. Most of the passengers were Swedish, although some were of Estonian origin, while most of the crew members were Estonian. The ship was fully loaded, and was listing slightly to sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uto Lighthouse Spoo
Uto, Utö, or Utō may refer to: People Given name * Uto Ughi (born 1944), Italian violinist and conductor * Uto Wunderlich (born 1946), German sports shooter Surname * Datu Uto (died c. 1900), 18th Sultan of Buayan, Mindanao * Fumiaki Uto, Japanese astronomer * Naoki Uto, (born 1991) Japanese basketball player * Shunpei Uto (born 1918), Japanese swimmer * Takashi Uto (born 1974), Japanese politician Places * Utö (Finland), an island in the Archipelago Sea, in southwest Finland * Utö, Sweden, an island in the Stockholm archipelago * Uto, Kumamoto, a city in Japan ** Uto District, Kumamoto, a former district in Japan * Uto Kulm, the summit of the Uetliberg mountain near Zürich in Switzerland * Uto Peak, a mountain in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada Other uses * Uto (goddess), Greek for the ancient Egyptian goddess Wadjet * Uto Station, a railway station in Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan * Utō Station, a railway station in Okazaki, Aichi, Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Defence Forces
The Finnish Defence Forces ( fi, Puolustusvoimat, sv, Försvarsmakten) are the military of Finland. The Finnish Defence Forces consist of the Finnish Army, the Finnish Navy and the Finnish Air Force. In wartime the Finnish Border Guard (which is its own military unit in peacetime) becomes part of the Finnish Defence Forces. Universal male conscription is in place, under which all men serve for 165, 255, or 347 days, from the year they turn 18 until the year they turn 29. Alternative non-military service for men and voluntary service for women is available. Finland is the only non-NATO European Union state bordering Russia. Finland's official policy states that a wartime military strength of 280,000 personnel constitutes a sufficient deterrent. The army consists of a highly mobile field army backed up by local defence units. The army defends the national territory and its military strategy employs the use of the heavily forested terrain and numerous lakes to wear down an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
