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Viking Archipelago

By aardvarchaeology on March 4, 2007.

Most of Sweden is still seeing continual land upheaval after the latest Ice Age. Where I live, the shoreline recedes half a meter per century, measured vertically. If you build a jetty around here when you're 20, it's pretty much useless when you're 80. This means that the Stockholm Archipelago is in constant flux: underwater rocks become islets, islands merge, and finally they become landlocked hills.

Here's a pop-sci essay in Swedish I published recently in the local historical society's bulletin. It's about the boating situation in my area, Nacka municipality east of Stockholm, a thousand years ago.

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Nooo! The ultimate evil - a link as a PDF! I refuse, on principle, to wait 15 seconds for a program to load just so I can read some text and see some pictures.

Do you have the link in a more humanistic format..?

Nope, it's PDF or nuthin'. Right-click the link, Save as..., print it out, sit down like a good humanist and read hard copy!

Martin: fun reading! If you haven't already done so, you should send this to my old scout troop: Saltsjöbadens Sjöscoutkår. They would probably invite you to give a talk as well!