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Kiruna

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kiruna , city (1990 pop. 20,470), Norrbotten co., N Sweden. The northernmost city in Sweden, it is the center of the Lapland iron-mining region. The ore is shipped on the Lapland railroad (completed 1902) either to Narvik, Norway, an ice-free Atlantic port, or to Luleå, Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Kiruna became the most extensive city (c.5,500 sq mi/14,250 sq km) in the world in 1948, when several distant mining villages were incorporated into it. The city is also a winter sports center and has a geophysical institute and the ESRANGE sounding rocket and scientific balloon launch site.... Read more
Narvik
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Narvik , city (1995 pop. 18,899), Nordland co., N Norway, an ice-free port on the Ofotfjord opposite the Lofoten Islands. It was founded (1887) as the Atlantic port for the Kiruna and Gällivare iron mines in Sweden and was known as Victoriahavn ... Read more
Luleälv
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... potential power, and have impounded huge lakes. Power from Porjus operates many industries in N Sweden, especially the iron mines at Kiruna and Gällivare. Power is transported by high tension wires from Harsprånget to Hallsberg in central Sweden. Author ... Read more

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Free Article Flynordic launches service to Kiruna.(Brief Article)
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Free Article Baas R&D, Sweden, has installed the Gotcha train monitoring system on a trial section of the heavy-haul line from Kiruna to Narvik, Norway.(Sweden)
International Railway Journal; 2/1/2006
Free Article Rendezvous.(Calendar)
International Railway Journal; 6/1/2007