Hornavan
Sign in to saveHornavan is a lake in northern Sweden. Located in Arjeplog Municipality in the province of Swedish Lapland, administratively known as Norrbotten County, it is the deepest lake in Sweden at . Being a high mountain lake downstream from the source of the Skellefte River, the deepest point of the lake basin is still located above sea level. Due to the cold subarctic climate of the area, it always freezes over for several months of the year in spite of its depth.
Key facts
- Lake.name
- Hornavan
- Lake.image
- Hornavan (Tjärvek) 09.jpg
- Lake.caption
- The north-western part of the lake
- Lake.alt
- Refer to caption
- Lake.pushpin_map
- Sweden
- Lake.pushpin_map_caption
- Hornavan in Sweden
- Lake.pushpin_map_alt
- Location in Sweden
- Lake.image_bathymetry
- Skelleftealven_River_map_closer.gif
- Lake.caption_bathymetry
- Map of Lake Hornavan (upper left) in Sweden
- Lake.alt_bathymetry
- Refer to caption
- Lake.location
- Swedish Lapland
- Lake.basin_countries
- Sweden
- Lake.islands
- 400 islets
- Lake.cities
- Arjeplog, Jäckvik
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 262.39221426900002000000
- Elevation
- 425
- Image
- Hornavan (Tjärvek) 09.jpg
- Length
- 70
- Perimeter
- 373
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- Commons category
- Hornavan
- watershed area
- 4220
- volume as quantity
- 11233945000
- vertical depth
- 228
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Hornavan is a lake in northern Sweden. Located in Arjeplog Municipality in the province of Swedish Lapland, administratively known as Norrbotten County, it is the deepest lake in Sweden at . Being a high mountain lake downstream from the source of the Skellefte River, the deepest point of the lake basin is still located above sea level. Due to the cold subarctic climate of the area, it always freezes over for several months of the year in spite of its depth.
== Geography == It is situated in the Scandinavian mountain range, at a height of . The town of Arjeplog is located on its south-western shore. The lake then extends northwest up to the town of Jäckvik, containing about 400 islets, many of which have distinguishable flora and fauna. Research on the ecosystems comparing the larger islands with smaller islets in Hornavan and Uddjaur are popular due to their unpolluted environment, and have yielded . In June 2005 an international study was published in Nature entitled Effects of species and functional group loss on island ecosystem properties.
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