Tarfala Valley
Tarfala Valley is a valley in Kiruna Municipality, Sweden. Several glaciers flow into the valley and glaciological research has been conducted since 1946 at the Tarfala scientific station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alexandar Vujadinovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include STF Tarfala Mountain cabin and Darfáljávri.
STF Tarfala Mountain cabin
Mountain hut
Photo: Salgo60, CC BY-SA 4.0.
STF Tarfala Mountain cabin is a mountain hut.
Storglaciären
Glacier
Storglaciären is a glacier in Tarfala Valley in the Scandinavian Mountains of Kiruna Municipality, Sweden. The glacier is classified as polythermal having both cold and warm bottom temperatures.
Tarfala Valley
- Type: Residential area
- Description: valley in Kiruna Municipality, Sweden
- Category: valley
- Location: Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
67.91909° or 67° 55′ 9″ northLongitude
18.59969° or 18° 35′ 59″ eastElevation
1,135 metres (3,724 feet)Open location code
9FVWWH9X+JVOpenStreetMap ID
way 615265489OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Tarfala Valley” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Тарфала”
- Chinese: “塔尔法拉谷”
- Danish: “Tarfaladalen”
- Dutch: “Tarfalavallei”
- German: “Tarfala”
- Japanese: “タルファラダーレン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Darfalvaggi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarfala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarfaladalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarfalavagge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darfalvággi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarfala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarfaladalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarfalavagge”
- Norwegian: “Tarfala”
- Spanish: “Valle de Tarfala”
- Swedish: “Tarfala”
- Swedish: “Tarfaladalen”
- Swedish: “Tarfalavagge”
Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Tarfala Valley”. Photo: Alexandar Vujadinovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.