High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
On opposite sides of the Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden's High Coast and Finland's Kvarken Archipelago record a coast still responding to the disappearance of its ice sheet.
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On opposite sides of the Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden's High Coast and Finland's Kvarken Archipelago record a coast still responding to the disappearance of its ice sheet. The contrasting coastlines show land still rising after the disappearance of its former ice sheet.
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The contrasting coastlines show land still rising after the disappearance of its former ice sheet.
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High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
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