Hornavan
Encyclopedia
Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...
in northern Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. It is located in Arjeplog Municipality
Arjeplog Municipality
Arjeplog Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Arjeplog....
in the province of Swedish Lapland
Swedish Lapland
Lappland is a province in northernmost Sweden. It borders Jämtland, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, Norrbotten, Norway and Finland. About a quarter of Sweden's surface area is in Lappland.Lappland originally extended eastward...
, administratively known as Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County is the northernmost county or län of Sweden. It borders Västerbotten County to the southwest, the Gulf of Bothnia to the southeast. It also borders the counties of Nordland and Troms in Norway to the northwest, and Lapland Province in Finland to the northeast.The name...
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Geography
It is situated among the Scandinavian mountain range, at a height of 425 meters. The town Arjeplog is located by its south-western shore. The lake then extends 70 kilometers northwest up to the town of Jäckvik, containing about 400 islets, many of which have distinguishable floras and faunas. Research on the ecosystems comparing larger islands with smaller islets in Hornavan and Uddjaur are popular due to their unpolluted environment, and have given rewarding results. An international study was published in NatureNature (journal)
Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
entitled Effects of species and functional group loss on island ecosystem properties.
On its southern end, the lake attaches with the lake Uddjaure
Uddjaure
Uddjaure is a lake in Norrbotten County, Lappland, Sweden, adjacent to Lake Hornavan....
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The surface area fluctuates between 220 and 283 km², but some sources give it as constant 251 km²; in any case, it is the eighth largest lake in Sweden. With a largest depth of 221 meters it is also the deepest.
The lake has been cultivated for water power. All lakes in Arjeplog Municipality have drinkable water.
Fishing
Animalwise, it has 5 native kinds of whitefishCoregonus
Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family . The type species is the common whitefish . The Coregonus species are known as whitefishes...
: Coregonus pallasii, Coreganus megalops, Coreganus maxillaris, Coregoni nilssoni and Coreganus widegreni (the latter known under the name Valaam). , with a sixth, Coreganus maraena, planted in the 1940s.
The most popular sport-fishing catches are otherwise trout
Trout
Trout is the name for a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the family Salmonidae. Salmon belong to the same family as trout. Most salmon species spend almost all their lives in salt water...
s, which is best done trolling
Troll (angling)
Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water. This may be behind a moving boat, or by slowly winding the line in when fishing from a static position, or even sweeping the line from side-to-side, e.g. when fishing from...
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