Qualla: Limingen https://qualla.com/limingen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/limingen-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Limingen https://qualla.com/limingen Limingen: Introduction https://qualla.com/limingen/ Photo credit Unni Fürst, CC BY-SA 4.0. Stand on the east shore of Limingen and Sweden is a ten-minute walk away — 725 metres of ground, and then a different country. That proximity is the first surprise. The second is what the lake does with its water. Limingen does not have an outlet in the ordinary sense of a river leaving a lake and finding the sea. It empties from both ends, through tunnels bored in rock, into two separate power systems running in opposite directions, one of which ends up on the Swedish side of that border. Norway's eighth-largest lake has been rewired.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/limingen-wp/u798-limingen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Limingen: Lyjmede https://qualla.com/limingen/ Photo credit Unni Fürst, CC BY-SA 4.0. In Southern Sámi the lake is Lyjmede, and the country around it is Saepmie. Most of the water lies in Røyrvik Municipality, whose co-official Sámi name Raarvihke was approved in 2014, with the southern end reaching into Lierne. Røyrvik has 423 residents — the third smallest munic...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/limingen-wp/u798-limingen-lyjmede.mp3 0:06 2 full Limingen: Ninety-Three Square Kilometres, and Deep https://qualla.com/limingen/ Photo credit Unni Fürst, CC BY-SA 4.0. The numbers are worth laying out properly. Limingen covers about 93 square kilometres, stretches 25 kilometres at its longest and 6 at its widest, and sits 418 metres above sea level. It reaches 192 metres at the deepest point and averages 87 metres, which is the striking figure ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/limingen-wp/u798-limingen-ninety-three-square-kilometres-and-deep.mp3 0:06 3 full Limingen: A Lake Plumbed in Three Directions https://qualla.com/limingen/ Photo credit Unni Fürst, CC BY-SA 4.0. Water arrives at the north end from the lake Vektaren by way of the Røyrvikelva river, through a dam. From there it leaves the lake by tunnel to the Røyrvikfoss Power Station at the village of Røyrvik. At the far southern end, near the small village of Limingen in Lierne, another...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/limingen-wp/u798-limingen-a-lake-plumbed-in-three-directions.mp3 0:06 4 full Limingen: The Tideline That Isn't https://qualla.com/limingen/ Photo credit Unni Fürst, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ten metres of drawdown leaves a mark you cannot miss. When the reservoir is low, a wide band of bare stone and gravel stands exposed between the waterline and the vegetation, a false tideline in a lake more than 400 metres above any actual tide. It is the signature of regulated w...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/8/limingen-wp/u798-limingen-the-tideline-that-isnt.mp3 0:06 5 full Limingen: A Border You Can See Across https://qualla.com/limingen/ Photo credit Unni Fürst, CC BY-SA 4.0. The 725 metres to Sweden matter more than a line on a map suggests. This is the Scandinavian interior, and the border here was surveyed across country that Sámi families and their reindeer had been crossing with the seasons long before either state drew it. The engineers who came...

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