Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scandinavia in winter

 
Original - With a landscape largely shaped by glaciers over the last ice age, the Scandinavian Peninsula is as picturesque in the winter as it is cold. Along the left side of the peninsula, one can see the fjords lining Norway's coast. These fjords were carved out by extremely heavy, thick glaciers that formed during the last ice age. Glaciers also carved the mountains in Norway and northernmost Sweden. South of this mountainous region, however, Sweden consists mostly of flat, heavily forested land dotted with lakes. Lake Vänern and Lake Vättern, the largest of Sweden’s lakes, do not freeze completely during the winter months and can be seen clearly at the bottom of the peninsula. To the northeast of the peninsula lies Finland with more than 55,000 lakes, most of which were also created by glacial deposits.
Reason
High resolution, high quality NASA satellite photo
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Ice age, Scandinavia, Scandinavian Peninsula, Climate of the Nordic countries, Östersund
Creator
NASA
Though edited for space, clarity, and excessive detail. SpencerT♦C 01:04, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, unless they are perfectly parallel waves, they are probably due to image stitching. vlad§inger tlk 00:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I considered that already, but they do seem to be (near)perfectly parallel. They are indeed, as Vladsinger states, not very noticable at normal size viewing, but they do become clearly noticable on fullsize view. Fransw (talk) 22:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Scandinavia.TMO2003050.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 04:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]