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Aurora borealis - the northern lights
The pulsating and multicoloured northern lights are born at a height of about 100 kilometers above ground level as electrically charged particles collide with the earth's atmosphere near the magnetic poles. Northern lights can be seen from the beginning of September until April (but not every night). Our summertime isn't dark enough for seeing northern lights (we have the midnight sun). There are northern lights in 200 nights in Saariselkä region every year.
The Lonely Planet Blue List 2007 describes the northern lights as ”the World's Most Amazing Natural Phenomenon”.
A La Carte Lapland: http://www.alacartelapland.com
Arctic Academy: http://www.arcticacademy.fi
Aurora in Levi center: http://www.lelawhisnant.net/kittilajournal/aurora2.htm
Aurora photos by Studio Tunturi-Lappi: http://www.studiotunturi-lappi.fi/ (choose Aurora on the left)
Auroras now: http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/english/start_page.html and http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/english/earlier_auroras_material.html
Digital Photo Experiments (Northern Lights): http://koti.mbnet.fi/~amika/digiexp/phenomenon/index.htm
Finland.com Travel Portal: http://finland.com/main-63-id.do
Finnish Meteorological Institute: http://www.fmi.fi/research_space/space_9.html
Hotel & Igloo Village Kakslauttanen (one of the best places for seeing Northern Lights): http://www.kakslauttanen.fi and http://www.travel.fi/int/kakslauttanen/
Jouni Jussila: http://spaceweb.oulu.fi/~jussila/aurora/
Kiela Naturium (Northern Lights planetarium in Muonio): http://www.kielanaturium.fi
Lapland Finland: http://www.laplandfinland.com/?deptid=16543
Northern lights forecast: http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Ethu/Aurora/forecast.html
Northern Lights paintings: http://www.revontulitaulut.com/english/etusivu.html
Oulu University: http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/auroras.html
Polar Image (Aurora webcam & photos): http://www.polarimage.fi/menu/aurora.htm
Santa Television: http://www.santatelevision.com/northernlights/index.html
Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory: http://www.sgo.fi/
Ursa: http://www.ursa.fi/ursa/jaostot/revontulet/english.html
Virtual Finland: http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25559 and http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/aurora_borealis.html
Visit Finland: http://www.visitfinland.com/w5/index.nsf/(pages)/Midnight_Sun_and_Northern_Lights?OpenDocument&np=A
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