Abisko National Park

The National Park Abisko (Swedish: Abisko national park ) is located about 200 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Swedish province of Norrbotten County and indeed in the Swedish-Norwegian border mountains.

The name derives from the nearby nearby place from Abisko ( Sami: Ábeskovvu = Sea Forest). As one of the 29 to today appointed national parks in Sweden, the park was made ​​in 1909 under protection and has an area of 77 km ². The highest mountains in the national park are the Slåttatjåhka with 1191 m and 1169 m with Nuolja.

The National Park consists of a valley that is surrounded by mountain ranges in the south and west and the Tornetrask lake in the north. This lake is the seventh largest lake in Sweden and the largest located in the mountains of this country. The river Abiskojokka, which runs through the entire park, flows just before its mouth through a canyon depth of about 20 m. Your steep rock walls provide an insight into the geological history of the area

Tourism

One of the most important Swedish long-distance footpaths, the King's Trail, begins at the Abisko Turiststation, which is also accessible via the same station, and leads through the National Park southward. The largest lakes are the Vuolep Njakajaure, Abiskojaure and Påtjojaure. The European route 10 leads in the section between Kiruna and Narvik parallel to the finished already in 1903 Erzbahn (Swedish: Malmbanan ) on the banks of Tornetrask along through the National Park.

Fauna and Flora

The largest mammals that occur in the park, are moose, reindeer, and occasionally predators such as arctic foxes, wolverines and lynx. Among the smaller count squirrels, stoats and the mountain lemming. A remarkable Brutvogelart is the Greenish Warbler.

In the area of ​​both orchids and the Lapland albums rose occur.

Aurora

The area has seen the highest probability auroras worldwide. There is little light pollution, as there are only a few small towns within a radius of about 100 km. Only Kiruna and Narvik have almost 19,000 inhabitants and are both about an hour away on the European highway E10. Abisko is located 195 km north of the Arctic Circle, and thus occur in the bands of aurora mostly in the mid- latitude range ( 60 ° to 80 °). In addition, the region has the lowest probability of precipitation in Sweden, as the neighboring mountain Nuolja keeps the clouds ( which also corresponds to the translation of his name ).

Over a mountain,

And overlooking the mountain Nuolja (fish eye)