Svappavaara

Svappavaara
Svappavaara
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Norrbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Lapland
Municipality  :	Kiruna
Coordinates :	67 ° 39 ′  N , 21 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 67 ° 39 ′  N , 21 ° 4 ′  E
SCB code :	8864
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	400 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	1.14 km²
Population density :	351 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Norrbotten County

Svappavaara (1965)

Svappavaara ( meänkieli Vaskivuori , North Sami Veaikkevárri ) is a place ( Tatort ) in the northern Swedish province of Norrbotten County and the historical province of Lapland north of the Arctic Circle .

The place was laid out as a mining site in the 17th century, and the LKAB mining company is still the largest employer today, processing iron ore into pellets in an enrichment plant here . The opencast mine Svappavaaragruvan , actually Leveäniemigruvan , was in operation from 1964 to 1983 and was filled with water after it was closed.

There is a church in the village from the 1960s, and the Ormen Långe house was built according to plans by the well-known Swedish architect Ralph Erskine , but some of it is no longer in use today.

The European route 45 leads past Svappavaara. There is also an ore loading point with a connection to the Luleå - Narvik ore railway .

Web links

Commons : Svappavaara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
2. ↑ LKAB utreder öppnande av Svappavaaragruvan