Archipelago
An archipelago ( Swedish skär ; Norwegian skjær or skjer ; Icelandic sker - all from Old Norse sker ) is a small rocky island that was formed in the Ice Ages , when the inland ice emanating from Scandinavia and North America flowed over and abraded the underlying rock. This is how their flat, rounded shape was created. They can be a few square meters to a few square kilometers.
Archipelagos are found mainly in Scandinavia and Canada . Often they form groups of many hundreds of individual islands. Because of the idea that you have a “yard” with islands in front of you in front of you in the northern European languages skärgård (Swedish), skærgård (Danish) etc. The word component -gård (“yard”), which with English yard ("Hof") is related, was translated into German as "Garten" and led to the name archipelago .
Scientifically speaking (see geomorphology ) include the archipelago together with the larger but lush vegetation Holmen to the round humps . Just like the archipelago (also known as the Fjärden Coast ), the fjords were formed during the Ice Ages. With the thawing of the ice masses, the rock masses freed from the weight of the ice emerged from the sea in the form of many small islands only in the last 10,000 years. Even today the land is still rising, so the islands continue to grow.
There are extensive European archipelago landscapes on the coasts of Norway , Sweden ( Stockholm archipelago and Gothenburg archipelago ) and Finland ( archipelago off Turku ) as well as in larger lakes in these countries (e.g. Mälaren , Vänern ). The larger islands are often inhabited here. Outside of Europe, archipelagos can be found mainly on the Atlantic coast of Canada and on Hudson Bay (northern Canada). Archipelagos rarely rise more than 50 meters above sea level and are overgrown with grass, bushes or low trees , depending on the location, climate and wind conditions. There are often sheltered harbors and fairways on the mainland side of the archipelago , but navigation is often challenging due to the many shallows .
