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6 unusual facts about Kiruna


1996–97 FIS Cross-Country World Cup

The 1996–97 FIS Cross-Country World Cup started in Kiruna, Sweden, on 23 November 1996 and finished in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway, on 15 March 1997.

En liten julsaga

An old man and his dog find Nonno and leave him at the post but he falls down into a bag which will go by train to Kiruna, where Anna who works at the post at the station finds him and brings him home.

Ice hotel

Existing each year between December and April, the Icehotel in the village of Jukkasjärvi, about 17 km from Kiruna, Sweden, was the world's first ice hotel.

Joint European Master in Space Science and Technology

The first year of the programme is the same for all the students, starting their first semester in Würzburg, Germany and continuing their second semester in Kiruna, Sweden.

Narvik Station

The station is located 3.70 km from the line terminus at Narvik Port and is served by three daily passenger trains from, respectively, Kiruna, Luleå and Stockholm in Sweden.

Spaceport Sweden

Spaceport Sweden is a company that plans to make Kiruna the primary European Spaceport for personal suborbital spaceflight for space tourism, research, education and a hub for cross-industry innovation.


J. P. Dahlén

Jonas Petter Dahlén (also called "Dahlén i Kiruna", meaning 'Dahlén in Kiruna', b. November 14, 1881, Ragunda, d. January 23, 1938, Jukkasjärvi) was a Swedish mine worker and politician.

Narvik

There are road connections from Narvik across the mountains eastwards to Abisko and Kiruna, Sweden (via European route E10).

Perlan Project

Einar Enevoldson conceived the project in 1992, after seeing the new LIDAR images of standing mountain waves west of Kiruna, Sweden, that Dr.Wolfgang Renger of the DLR, Oberpffafenhofen, Germany posted on his office wall.

Råpi

Råpi (also, Ropi) is a 926 meters high mountain in Norrbotten County, northern Sweden, near Kiruna.

Sante Poromaa

He was born in 1958 in Kiruna, Sweden, and commenced his Zen training in the early eighties, as a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau.

Solstorm

Rebecka Martinsson (Izabella Scorupco) is an attorney who lives in Stockholm that one day receives a call from a childhood friend who tells her that her brother has been murdered inside a church in the village of Kurravaara outside Kiruna.

Torne Valley

Geographically the townships and municipalities that make up the area are Haparanda, Övertorneå, Pajala and Kiruna in Sweden, and Tornio, Ylitornio, Pello, Kolari, Muonio and Enontekiö in Finland.


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