Western Oulu region Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Western Oulu region
Western Oulu region covers a large part of the east coast of the Bothnian Bay. The area is fairly flat, quite completely less than 100 meters above sea level. The area is crossed by several small and medium sized rivers out of which the river Ii (Finnish:Iijoki) still has its original breeding Baltic Sea salmon population. There are very few lakes in the area. Thepost-glacial reboundis a phenomenon where the crystalline basement is slowly rising up after being depressed during the last ice age. The Bothnian Bay coast is perhaps the best place on Earth to observe this as the ground is rising up almost one centimetre a year! The shallow Liminka Bay (Finnish:Liminganlahti) is one of the most valuable bird wetlands in the whole of Europe. Outside the hi-tech university city of Oulu and the ind
Western Oulu region Travel Guide Sections
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