Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scandinavia in winter

Scandinavia in winter

**Original** - With a landscape largely shaped by glaciers over the last ice age, the Scandinavian Peninsula is as picturesque in the winter as it is cold. Along the left side of the peninsula, one can see the fjords lining Norway's coast. These fjords were carved out by extremely heavy, thick glaciers that formed during the last ice age. Glaciers also carved the mountains in Norway and northernmost Sweden. South of this mountainous region, however, Sweden consists mostly of flat, heavily forested land dotted with lakes. Lake Vänern and Lake Vättern, the largest of Sweden’s lakes, do not freeze completely during the winter months and can be seen clearly at the bottom of the peninsula. To the northeast of the peninsula lies Finland with more than 55,000 lakes, most of which were also created by glacial deposits.

Reason: High resolution, high quality NASA satellite photo
Articles this image appears in: Ice age, Scandinavia, Scandinavian Peninsula, Climate of the Nordic countries, Östersund
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Spencer^T♦^C 17:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely. Durova^Charge! 19:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 21:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Nice, you can almost see my house. ;) TheLeft orium 00:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Most definitely ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 00:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very nice, sharp as heck too. Would prefer without the border line though. --Chasingsol ^(talk) 21:52, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Beautiful image with high quality.--Caspian blue 08:10, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - nice image, M.K. (talk) 13:03, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Large, detailed, and informative. NauticaShad es 20:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support useful and informative image with a good caption (even if it was borrowed from NASA). Fletcher (talk) 00:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Though edited for space, clarity, and excessive detail. Spencer^T♦^C 01:04, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Gorgeous. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support & Question It's an absolutely stunning image in terms of detail. The question part is this: Off the coast of norway, in the patch of ocean not covered by clouds, there are several straight lines visible (best at full resolution). Are these image artifacts, or something else? Fransw (talk) 21:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, unless they are perfectly parallel waves, they are probably due to image stitching. vlad§inger ^tlk 00:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I considered that already, but they do seem to be (near)perfectly parallel. They are indeed, as Vladsinger states, not very noticable at normal size viewing, but they do become clearly noticable on fullsize view. Fransw (talk) 22:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support above issue hardly noticeable. vlad§inger ^tlk 00:55, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Scandinavia.TMO2003050.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 04:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]