Northern Lights - Posio, Lapland, Finland

From a rooftop in Posio, in southern Finnish Lapland, this camera looks up at the Arctic sky, where the northern lights dance over snowy forests on clear winter nights and the midnight sun glows through the summer.

Posio is a large, quiet municipality of forests and fells covering about 1,350 square miles (3,500 km²). Kuusamo airport is about an hour's drive away, and Rovaniemi is about two hours, with daily buses to Posio from both.

The area's most famous sight is Riisitunturi National Park, where heavy crown snow-load, called tykky in Finnish, builds up on the trees and turns them into strange white figures, best seen in January and February.

Did You Know? A single tree loaded with crown snow can carry several thousand kilograms of snow and frozen rime ice.

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