Lapland

If you're above the Arctic Circle within Europe, you're in a pretty good spot.

And it's a fantastic place for so much adventure activities, family trips, because of course you've got Lapland there as well.

There's stuff going on on land as well as in the sky.

Oh, there is so much going on, and I think that is one of the common misconceptions.

It depends on where you are how that looks.

Each country offers something a bit different.

Finnish Lapland, for example, northern Finland, it's stunning fells, forests, frozen lakes, gigantic flo- frozen lakes.

They have the very traditional Lapland experience available there.

The steady position of the ice at the west of Novaya Zemlya, the mud and stones on it, and various other smaller indications confirmed the hypothesis.

Besides, if such a land were not located there, the ice current which flows westward from the meridian of Bering Strait to Greenland, the current of the Fram Strait, would, as Baron Schilling had truly remarked, reach the North Cape and cover the coasts of Laponia with masses of ice, just as it covers the northern extremity of Greenland.

The warm current alone, a feeble continuation of the Gulf Stream, could not have prevented the accumulation of ice on the coasts of northern Europe.

This land, as is known, was discovered a couple of years later by the Austrian expedition and named Franz Josef Land.

although for many years in English they were referred to by derivatives of the word lap or lapland, even though they're found offensive by the people themselves.

So part of the work I was doing on the entry was explaining that situation.

But what was... particularly striking was that our first evidence in English for the word psalmy, which was found by my colleague Nikolai when he was working on the etymology, actually says the psalmers, that is the right name of these people we call Laplanders, which name they take for an affront.

So it's interesting that we were aware of that in English in the 1740s, but for 200 plus years, it was still the standard.

and you still hear it now yeah