Qualla: Ranseren https://qualla.com/ranseren en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ranseren https://qualla.com/ranseren Ranseren: Introduction https://qualla.com/ranseren/ Rain landing on this lake will finish its journey in the Gulf of Bothnia. The Atlantic is barely a hundred kilometres west, downhill all the way; the Baltic is several hundred kilometres east through two countries. The water goes east anyway. Ranseren lies at 803 metres on the Norway–Sweden border, a thin blue seam between treeless fells, and the drainage divide it sits behind decides that everything leaving its eastern end will spend weeks crossing Swedish Lapland before reaching salt water on the wrong side of the peninsula.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/d/4/ranseren-wp/u7d4-ranseren-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ranseren: Bijjie Raentsere https://qualla.com/ranseren/ The lake carries three names, and each says something different. In Norwegian it is Ranseren. In Swedish it is Bije-Ransarn, and in Southern Sami, Bijjie Raentsere — both meaning the upper Ranseren, because there is a lower one. Follow the outflow east and it delivers into Ransar...

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