Fell

Fjell ( norweg. ), Fell ( swedish ) Fjall ( isländ. ) or Tunturi (Finnish ) is an ecoregion in Fennoscandia. There are mountains or plateaus above the coniferous forest limit. The Norwegian word fjell and the Swedish fjäll actually mean only " mountains". In German, the word was taken to refer to the prevailing especially in the western and northern Scandinavia alpine type.

In the Scandinavian mountains of Norway and Sweden, the fells usually form extensive plateaus. The landscape is glacially overprinted and usually wavy or undulating. In the valleys are often formed lakes. The vegetation is at the edge of the forest of stunted Fjellbirken (Betula tortuosa ), also from dwarf shrubs and the edge of the rocky region of grasses, mosses, herbs and lichens. Thus, Fjell can also be translated as mountain tundra and thus forms the corresponding type of landscape in Scandinavia.

In Finland, the typical for the region Lapland mountains are as Tunturi (plural: tunturit ) refers. These products are considered to round island mountains that rise up from the otherwise flat area. The mountains in Finnish Lapland reach heights between 400 and 800 meters, the upper portions are above the tree line. Mountains do not reach the tree line are, however, usually referred to as vaara. The mountains in Finnish Lapland represent remnants of the resulting two billion years ago the mountains Kareliden that have been abraded by the glaciers of the Ice Age. The Finnish name Tunturi is etymologically related to the word tundra.