Luossajärvi
Luossajärvi is a small 260-acre lake in Kiruna in northern Sweden beside Luossavaara. The mining company LKAB has gradually emptied the southern part of the lake in 2007–8 to allow mining of iron ore in the peat bog.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Kiruna, Sweden
- Also known as: “Lake Luossavaara”, “Loussajärvi Lake”, “Luossajavri”, and “Luossajávri”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kiruna Railway station and Luossavaara.
Kiruna Railway station
Railway station
Photo: RefDr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kiruna Central Station is a railway station located on the Iron Ore Line in Kiruna, Sweden. The station is served by up to three daily services northwards on the Iron Ore Line to Narvik Station in Norway.
Luossavaara
Peak
Luossavaara is a mountain in Kiruna, Sweden. It is the site of a now-inactive iron ore mine formerly operated by the Swedish mining company LKAB. Today it has a ski lift and slope, as well as a hiking path called Midnattsolstigen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kiruna and Tuolluvaara.
Kiruna
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Kiruna in Norrbotten County is Sweden's northernmost city and home to 18,000 citizens. It is the centre of Kiruna Municipality, Kiruna kommun, which also includes several small villages, resorts and settlements scattered around a large wilderness area.
Tuolluvaara
Suburb
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tuolluvaara is a suburb, which is situated 7 km east of Luossajärvi.
Luossajärvi
- Categories: lake water body and body of water
- Location: Norrbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Luossajärvi” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Luossajärvi”
- Dutch: “Luossajarvi”
- Dutch: “Luossajärvi”
- Dutch: “Luossameer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره لوساچارڤى”
- Estonian: “Luossajärvi”
- French: “Luossajärvi”
- German: “Luossajärvi”
- Northern Sami: “Luossajávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luossajärvi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luossajärvi”
- Norwegian: “Luossajärvi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luossajärvi”
- Swedish: “Luossajärvi”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include LKAB visningsgruva InfoMine and Peurajärvi.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Luossajärvi”. Photo: Gerrit, CC BY-SA 3.0.