Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast

The High Coast and the Kvarken Archipelago (added in 2006 as an extension to this World Heritage site) are outstanding examples of glaciation processes.

Both sites, on either side of the Gulf of Bothnia, hold numerous islands and islets. The High Coast is important for research on isostacy, in which the land rises as the weight of the glaciers melts off of it. This phenomenon was first recognised and studied here.
Kvarken features unusual ridged washboard moraines, "De Greer moraines", formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet, 10,000 to 24,000 years ago.

Baltic Sea .

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A very nice place. Don't miss the smal fishing village, the mannamine museum and the Krevassen!

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