Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of extreme northern Europe including northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the Kola Peninsula of northwest Russia. It is largely within the Arctic Circle and is the traditional homeland of the Sami.
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- proper noun The northern parts of
Scandinavia andFinland with theKola Peninsula inRussia , traditionally inhabited by theSami people.
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- noun a region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps
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Examples
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Subfossil samples of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris and evidence of pine stomata and pollen accumulation rates from previously studied lakes located beyond the present pine forest line in Finnish Lapland were used to reconstruct the extent of the past forest line and the corresponding minimum shift in mean July temperatures, compared with the present.
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Subfossil samples of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris and evidence of pine stomata and pollen accumulation rates from previously studied lakes located beyond the present pine forest line in Finnish Lapland were used to reconstruct the extent of the past forest line and the corresponding minimum shift in mean July temperatures, compared with the present.
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The mean July temperatures in Finnish Lapland have been ca.
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I have also had restricted access to my extensive holiday wardrobe, thanks to my pesky Skyways case taking its own ill-deserved break in Lapland, whilst on its way to meet me in London.
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I have also had restricted access to my extensive holiday wardrobe, thanks to my pesky Skyways case taking its own ill-deserved break in Lapland, whilst on its way to meet me in London.
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Finland is essentially a flat country, slightly mountainous towards the north, but even her highest peak (Haldesjock, in Finnish Lapland) is under 4,000 feet in height.
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One day, while still in Lapland, Akka took the boy to Malmberget, where they discovered little Mats lying unconscious at the mouth of the pit.
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"No; Akka, the white goosey-gander, and the whole flock are probably safe and sound up in Lapland at this season," said the boy.
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We're afraid of the Ice Witch, who lives in Lapland, they answered.
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"Now it must be warm up in Lapland," thought the boy.
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