🦎 Hindens rev

Sweden · Europe · Nature Reserve · 58.58°N, 12.88°E

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Hindens rev
Hindens Rev is a long, narrow, straight peninsula that projects westwards from Kålland into Dalbosjön, the western part of lake Vänern. Hindens rev is a terminal moraine and is part of what is known as the central Swedish terminal moraine zone. The latter is in turn part of a series of terminal moraines that runs from southern Norway through Dalsland, Skaraborg and Östergötland, continuing under the Baltic Sea into southern Finland and Russia as the Salpausselkä moraine which separates lakes Ladoga and Saimaa. These moraines were formed during the Younger Dryas period, about 11,000 years ago, when the ice cap from the last ice age temporarily ceased withdrawing and rocks and other glacial materials emerged from the melting ice were deposited in front of the glacier terminus.

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Quick facts

CountrySweden
Continent / regionEurope
Protection type🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)58.58°N, 12.88°E · view on map

Hindens rev is a nature reserve in Sweden, in Europe. The details of why Hindens rev is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More protected areas in Sweden

Björnlandet National Park · Sarek National Park · Abisko National Park · Dalby Söderskog National Park · Pieljekaise National Park · Sonfjället National Park · Padjelanta National Park · Garphyttan National Park · Fulufjället National Park · Hallands Väderö.

Coordinates are an approximate area centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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