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Torneträsk or Torne träsk (Saami
Sami languages

Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe....
: Duortnosjávri, Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
/Meänkieli
Meänkieli

Me?nkieli is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in the most northern parts of Sweden, around the valley of the Torne River. From a linguistic point of view Me?nkieli is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish language, but for political and historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden....
: Tornio or Torniojärvi) is a lake
Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
 in the Lapland, Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
 in Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, in the Scandinavian mountain range. Träsk is the local word for lake. It is the seventh largest lake in Sweden, with a total area of 330 km² and a length of 70 kilometers. The lake drains to the south-east through Torne älv. South-west of the lake lies the Abisko National Park
Abisko National Park

Abisko National Park is a List of national parks of Sweden in Sweden.Geographically, Abisko is situated in the Swedish province of Swedish Lapland near the Norway border , and belongs to Kiruna Municipality, Sweden's northernmost and largest municipality....
 and the UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
  Laponian area
Laponian area

The Laponian area is a large mountainous wildlife area in the Lapland, Sweden province in northern Sweden, more precisely in the G?llivare Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality and Jokkmokk Municipality....
.

Torneträsk originated from the remnant of a glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
, which has given the lake its depth of 168 meters, making it the second deepest lake in Sweden.






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Torneträsk or Torne träsk (Saami
Sami languages

Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe....
: Duortnosjávri, Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
/Meänkieli
Meänkieli

Me?nkieli is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in the most northern parts of Sweden, around the valley of the Torne River. From a linguistic point of view Me?nkieli is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish language, but for political and historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden....
: Tornio or Torniojärvi) is a lake
Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
 in the Lapland, Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
 in Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, in the Scandinavian mountain range. Träsk is the local word for lake. It is the seventh largest lake in Sweden, with a total area of 330 km² and a length of 70 kilometers. The lake drains to the south-east through Torne älv. South-west of the lake lies the Abisko National Park
Abisko National Park

Abisko National Park is a List of national parks of Sweden in Sweden.Geographically, Abisko is situated in the Swedish province of Swedish Lapland near the Norway border , and belongs to Kiruna Municipality, Sweden's northernmost and largest municipality....
 and the UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
  Laponian area
Laponian area

The Laponian area is a large mountainous wildlife area in the Lapland, Sweden province in northern Sweden, more precisely in the G?llivare Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality and Jokkmokk Municipality....
.

Torneträsk originated from the remnant of a glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
, which has given the lake its depth of 168 meters, making it the second deepest lake in Sweden. It is usually ice-covered from December through June, with variations dependent on temperature variations.