Finland

Lakes, Baltic approaches and a shifting political setting run through these maps of Finland. Earlier European and imperial s...

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Lakes, Baltic approaches and a shifting political setting run through these maps of Finland. Earlier European and imperial sheets place the country within Swedish or Russian frameworks, later maps show it beside the Baltic states and Scandinavia, and northern sheets set it within the wider landscapes of Lapland. Maps of the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic link the Finnish shore with the sea routes around it, and geological surveys examine bedrock and surface deposits at a more detailed scale. Boundaries, place-name forms and purposes vary widely across this nineteenth- and twentieth-century work. Prints add settlements, coastal sites and regional subjects.

Lakes, Baltic approaches and a shifting political setting run through these maps of Finland. Earlier European and imperial sheets place the country within Swedish or Russian frameworks, later maps show it beside the Baltic states and Scandinavia, and northern sheets set it within the wider landscapes of Lapland. Maps of the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic link the Finnish shore with the sea routes around it, and geological surveys examine bedrock and surface deposits at a more detailed scale. Boundaries, place-name forms and purposes vary widely across this nineteenth- and twentieth-century work. Prints add settlements, coastal sites and regional subjects.

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