Kvarnbäckskojan
The place
Kvarnbäckskojan ("Mill-stream hut") in the Västerbotten region, Robertsfors/Bureå area (central Norrland, Sweden), true elevation ~35 m (entry's 0 m is incorrect), boreal Bothnian forest. Continuous Sweden Norrland cluster (batches 240-334). A communal or STF (Svenska Turistföreningen, founded 1885, modern-Viking outdoor tradition, 300,000 members, 300 huts) kojan, "Kvarnbäck" meaning an old flour-mill stream (millstone traces from the 18th-19th centuries common in this poor Bothnian region), an area of sub-boreal taiga and the Gulf of Bothnia (an inland sea with low salinity of 1-4‰ versus 35‰ for the ocean, home to the ringed seal Pusa hispida botnica, an endemic subspecies with about 10,000 individuals).
The setting
Västerbotten Robertsfors/Bureå Norrland Sweden elevation 0 m incorrect ~35 m real Bothnian, continuous cluster batches 240-334, STF 1885 300,000 members 300 huts modern Vikings, kvarnbäck old millstones 18th-19th c. poor Bothnian region, sub-boreal taiga, Gulf of Bothnia 1-4‰ vs 35‰ Pusa hispida botnica endemic 10,000.
