Scandinavia

The Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden, Finland, and sometimes Denmark and Iceland. These were all inhabited by the Vikings at one point in time, and have been dubbed “Scandinavia”. They are all located by the Atlantic Ocean and are located above the equator, and they all have mild weather conditions. All the countries accept for Iceland are European, but Iceland is independent and is near Greenland. Scandinavian countries have a unique physical geography because of volcanoes and glaciers.
All of these countries have a unique physical geography. They have pines, mountains, and unpolluted lakes. It is a mainly untouched land. In the winter, the snow falls for almost six straight months. Even though most of the land has many hills, there is some flat land for people to farm and plow on. One of the unique landforms they have is a fjord. Fjords are like natural harbors and are very were useful protection for the people that lived along the sea in the medieval days.
Volcanoes or glaciers have shaped most of these countries. The ones near Europe are mainly formed and eroded by glaciers, as where Iceland is completely a mound of volcanoes. Over many thousands of years, volcanoes have erupted underwater and built on themselves to eventually surface and become an island. This island is Iceland. There are specific landforms that are formed by glaciers; a Horn is a sharp peaked mountain formed when two glaciers jam into one another, bringing land up with them. A Tarn is a glacial lane caused by a glacier moving though a valley. There are still glaciers in the world, but definitely not a massive as they used to be. Most of Scandinavia was covered in glaciers thousands of years ago. But now, the glaciers have gone and volcanoes have emerged from the sea to form the unique Scandinavian countries.