Perfectly round island in north Sweden/Lapland
by Jakob Keck, Germany
A perfect circular grass island on a sandbank in the Rahpaselet, the valley and river delta of the Rahpaädno river in Sarek national park, Sweden. I am still searching for an answer how this circle of grass could have been formed, please let me know if you have an idea how it could have happened.
I could imagine that the phenomenon is connected to the formation of an ice disk in winter but I cannot think of a reason why this should result in a circular grass area.
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- Europe (3777)
- Northern Europe (905)
- Sweden (78)
- Exact location (17.7907 E, 67.2728 N)
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- lake (125)
- island (29)
- river (85)
- arctic (83)
- permafrost (18)
- grass (4)
- sarek (9)
- circle (1)
- ice disk (1)
- ring (1)
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4735 × 3141 px;
image/jpeg; 16.5 MB
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Canon EOS 500D
Taken on 5
September
2017
Submitted on 30 December 2017
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Jakob Keck (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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