Kiruna to Narvik •"Arctic Circle"Train • The World's Most Northern Railway • June 2023 | HD

•Arctic Circle Train - The World's Most Northern Railway •
From Kiruna to Narvik is one of the most beautiful trips in northern Sweden and Norway. The route with the Arctic Circle train is 133 km, takes around three hours and offers breathtaking views of the wild landscapes of Lapland. This line is considered one of the most spectacular in Europe ranging from the arctic wilderness to the fjords.
Lake Torneträsk 02:15 is located in the municipality of Kiruna. With a surface of 330 km² and a depth of 168 m, it is the second deepest lake in Sweden.
After Riksgränsen 09:39, Sweden's northernmost ski resort, the train continues through a fairytale landscape of rugged mountains, past the green waters of Ofotfjorden 14:38, one of Norway's many fjords. Here the best views begin and you can't help but want to keep traveling west towards the wild islands of Lofoten 14:58...
00:07 Kiruna Station
04:00 Abisko Ostra Station
05:56 Bjorkliden Station
08:05 Vassijaure Station
09:12 Katterjokk Station
09:39 Riksgränsen Station
11:00 Bjornfjell Station
13:16 Katterat Station
15:53 Rombak Station
18:26 Narvik Station
Understand the story:
It is the northernmost railway line in Norway. It was built between 1898 and 1903 to provide year-round shipping of iron ore from Kiruna in Swedish Lapland to the port of Narvik in Norway, a port never blocked by ice. Kiruna is located 200 km north of the polar circle. It is the largest municipality in Europe with more than 20,000 km², and is home to the largest underground iron mine in the world. Thirty million tons of iron ore are extracted from the earth every year, thirteen trains daily transport iron ore to the port of Narvik. Each train is made up of 52 wagons and each wagon has a load of approximately 80 tonnes. The wagons never stop even to load or unload and have priority on the line. It would take 300 trucks to transport the entire load of one train.
The corridors of the mine go up to 1775 meters deep under the city. The extraction of new minerals threatens the stability of the soil. The mining town of Kiruna will move, building by building for a new horizon... , just over 3 kilometers to the east. The current city center will be destroyed, as well as several residential areas
In January 2023, the Swedish mining group announced that it had identified in the Kiruna region, "the largest known deposit" of rare earths in Europe. The site would contain more than a million tons of metals or “one million tons of rare earth oxides”.
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