Bjorko-Panike Hiking Trail

Päivä Merenkurkussa (A day at The Kvarken Area)

Nature educator Vesa Heinonen guides us through the landscape, the geology and the history of the core area of the UNESCO World heritage site of Kvarken Archipelago. The film displays the fast land uplift phenomena of the Kvarken Archipelago and the effect of the land uplift on the daily life in the area. The footage is made in the village of Björköby 40 km northwest of Vaasa during one sunny summer day in July 2008.

Nature Trail at Bodvatten and the Tower in the winter Finland

Beautiful Bodvatten nature trail in the winter and the new 25 meters high tower. here you can see from the tower the beautiful unique archipelago that is listed to one of Unescos world heritage sites.
World Heritage Site

In 2006, the Kvarken Archipelago was added as an extension to the World Heritage Site, because it is continuously rising from the sea in a process of rapid glacio-isostatic uplift, whereby the land, previously weighed down under the weight of a glacier, lifts at rates that are among the highest in the world. As a consequence of the advancing shoreline, islands appear and unite, peninsulas expand, lakes evolve from bays and develop into marshes and peat fens. This property is essentially a type area for research on isostasy; the phenomenon having been first recognized and studied here.