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Ice fishermen set up camp on the lake's frozen surface.

SWEDEN | Sunday, 30 June 2013 | Views [381] | View Larger Image

Ice fishermen set up camp on the lake's frozen surface.

A local on their shopping run down Abisko high street. Abisko, or Ábeskovuu in the Sami language, is a village of less than 100 permanent inhabitants on the borders of Swedish Lapland - Europe's last great wilderness. In winter it remains still and quiet, enveloped by snow. Locals keep warm in home or sauna and are rarely seen.

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Fishing boats and huts lie frozenly abandoned on the shores of the mighty Torneträsk (Lake Torne), just south of the village. Torneträsk hibernates under and ice sheet over a metre and a half thick.

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