Things to find in Sweden

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• Lummelundagrottan Cave
  The best-known cave in Sweden, on the Baltic island of Gotland, cut through 400-million-year-old reef limestone laid down when this island was a tropical sea. Narrow, wet, well-decorated passages, with an underground stream and...
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• Swedish Kiruna iron Gem & mineral ground
  The largest underground iron mine on Earth, inside a mountain of nearly pure magnetite above the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland. It is so vast, and undermines so much ground, that the entire CITY of Kiruna is being physically...
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• The Baltic Sea anomaly Legend
  In 2011 a Swedish salvage team scanning the Gulf of Bothnia floor got a sonar return of a large circular object with what looked like ramps and right angles, and the internet promptly decided they had found a crashed flying...
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• The Devil’s Bible Legend
  The Codex Gigas is the largest surviving medieval manuscript in the world, a metre tall, weighing 75 kilograms, and it takes two people to lift. Legend says a monk of Bohemia, walled up alive for breaking his vows, promised to...
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• The Kraken and the Norwegian deep Legend
  The kraken of Norse sailors, a beast so vast it was mistaken for an island and could drag a ship under, is one of the oldest sea legends in Europe, written down by Bishop Pontoppidan in 1752. It has a real animal behind it: the...
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• The Spillings Hoard Legend
  The largest Viking silver treasure ever found in the world came out of the ground under a farm on the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden, in 1999, when an aerial survey and then a detector turned up more than 67 kilograms of...
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