Vaasa

Vaasa sits on the Kvarken coast in Finland, where post-glacial land uplift continually reshapes the shallow shoreline of the Gulf of Bothnia. The city faces the Kvarken Archipelago, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site shared with Sweden’s High Coast; its moraine formations and newly emerging islands distinguish this stretch of the Baltic. Vaasa was founded in 1606 under Swedish rule, and after the destructive fire of 1852 it was rebuilt closer to the harbour. Old Vaasa preserves traces of the former town, while Finnish and Swedish remain integral to local life on this bilingual coast. Move on to other webcams in western Finland to compare coastal landscapes and settings around Kvarken.

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