Rago National Park
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Rago National Park is a national park in Sørfold
municipality in the county of Nordland
, Norway
. Rago borders Sweden
's Padjelanta National Park. When its 167 km² in area is combined with adjacent protected areas for a total area of 5700 km², they create the largest protected area in Europe
.
The lakes Storskogvatnet
and Litlverivatnet
lie within the park. There are several glacier
s in the southeastern part of the park.
name Rágojiegna. The first element is the genitive case of ráhko 'sledge for tent poles', the last element is jiegna 'glacier
'.
Sørfold
Sørfold is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. The old municipality of Folden was divided into Sørfold and Nordfold-Kjerringøy on 1 January 1887.-General...
municipality in the county of Nordland
Nordland
is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. Rago borders 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....
's Padjelanta National Park. When its 167 km² in area is combined with adjacent protected areas for a total area of 5700 km², they create the largest protected area in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
The lakes Storskogvatnet
Storskogvatnet
Storskogvatnet is a Norwegian lake that lies in Sørfold municipality in Nordland.It is also within Rago National Park....
and Litlverivatnet
Litlverivatnet
Litlverivatnet is a Norwegian lake that lies in Sørfold municipality in Nordland, and within Rago National Park...
lie within the park. There are several glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
s in the southeastern part of the park.
The name
The name is a shortened form of the SamiSami languages
Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. Sami is frequently and erroneously believed to be a single language. Several names are used for the Sami...
name Rágojiegna. The first element is the genitive case of ráhko 'sledge for tent poles', the last element is jiegna 'glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
'.