MetaFilter posts tagged with Lapland

The Dark Edge of the North

tellurian — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:48:27 -0800

Carta Marina - From 1518 to 1519, Olaus Magnus made a journey across Sweden. On his journey, he encountered fish the size of elephants, sea serpents, demons and a tribe of pygmies.

From the land of the original Father Christmas

homunculus — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:45:30 -0800

Rare Exports, Inc. They deliver the impeccable, well-mannered, and extremely rare original Finnish Father Christmases to nearly 150 countries every Christmas. Exclusively. [YouTube, NSFW.] Technically this is a double post, and it's old, so I'd certainly understand it being deleted. But the old link doesn't work anymore, it still makes me laugh, and I'm guessing some people haven't seen it, so that's why I posted it.

Ice Hotel

bluedaniel — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:37:21 -0800

The Ice Hotel, a working 5,000 square metre hotel made entirely of 30,000 tons of snow and 4,000 tons of ice.

The Snow Show!

hoskala — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 14:19:11 -0800

The Snow Show! In the winter of 2004 a unique cultural event, The Snow Show, will take place in Lapland. Internationally recognized architects like Steven Holl and artists, for example Yoko Ono, will collaborate to design installations using as their primary materials snow and ice.

They already made some pretty cool previews last winter.

Reindeer herding over the internet

homunculus — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:51:29 -0800

Providing connectivity to the Saami nomadic community (pdf). The Saami Network Connectivity Project wants to provide wireless internet access for the nomadic Saami reindeer herders of Lapland (Sapmi.) The goal is to provide those Saami who live as herders with email, cached web access, remote schooling for children, and reindeer herd tracking telemetry.