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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARcH 15, 2019
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
The aurora borealis forms over Lake Inari above the Arctic Circle in Finland.
Scenes from Finland
By COLIN MURPHEY
The Daily Astorian
T
he connection between Astoria and
Finland is well-documented. Large
numbers of Finnish immigrants began
settling here in the late 1800s. I traveled to
Finland in early March and captured scenes
from Helsinki and above the Arctic Circle —
where the reindeer is still revered by indige-
nous people, snowmobiles get around better
than cars and night skies are filled with the
Northern Lights.
A reindeer walks around an enclosure near Inari. Reindeer husbandry is an important part of life among the Sami people.
A tractor plows a track on frozen Lake Inari for the
annual reindeer racing event.
Visitors to Helsinki take a photo during a ride aboard
a Ferris wheel.
Tracks from snowmobiles on Lake Inari, which serves
as a highway for much of the year.
People skate across an ice rink in downtown Helsinki near the main train station.