Moskstraumen
Moskstraumen is a system of tidal eddies and whirlpools, one of the strongest in the world, that forms at the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway between the Norwegian Sea and the Vestfjorden.Photo: Hopfenpflücker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Marine channel
- Description: tidal whirlpool system at the Lofoten archipelago in Norway
- Also known as: “Maelström”, “Mahlstrom”, “Malstrom”, and “Malström”
Moskstraumen
- Categories: maelstrom and body of water
- Location: Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Moskstraumen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Maelstrom itsaslasterra”
- Belarusian: “Маскстрэумен”
- Cebuano: “Moskenstraumen”
- Chinese: “默斯肯漩涡”
- Czech: “Malstróm”
- Czech: “Malström”
- Czech: “Moskenstraumen”
- Danish: “Moskstraumen”
- Dutch: “Maalstroom”
- Dutch: “Moskenstraumen”
- Dutch: “Moskstraumen”
- Estonian: “Maelström”
- French: “Maelström”
- French: “Malstrom”
- French: “Moskstraumen”
- German: “Mahlstrom”
- German: “Malstrom”
- German: “Moskenesstraumen”
- German: “Moskenstraumen”
- Icelandic: “Moskeyjarröst”
- Italian: “Maelstrom”
- Italian: “Maelström”
- Italian: “Moskstraumen”
- Korean: “모스크스트라우멘”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moskenesstraumen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moskenstraumen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moskstraumen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moskenesstraumen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moskenstraumen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moskstraumen”
- Norwegian: “Moskstraumen”
- Polish: “Maelstrom”
- Polish: “Malstrom”
- Russian: “Мальстрём”
- Russian: “Мальстрим”
- Russian: “Москстрёумен”
- Spanish: “Maelstrom”
- Spanish: “Maelström”
- Spanish: “Mosktraumen”
- Swedish: “Moskenesstraumen”
- Swedish: “Moskenesströmmen”
- Swedish: “Moskenstraumen”
- Swedish: “Moskenströmmen”
- Swedish: “Moskstraumen”
- Ukrainian: “Москенстреумен”
- Ukrainian: “Москстреумен”
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