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Stora Sjöfallet ((スウェーデン語:Stora Sjöfallets nationalpark)) is a national park in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, in Gällivare Municipality and Jokkmokk Municipality. The national park is and thereby the third largest in Sweden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/norrbotten/Sv/djur-och-natur/skyddad-natur/nationalparker/stora-sjofallet/Pages/default.aspx )〕 It is located about above the Arctic Circle〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.storasjofallet.com/upplevelse.asp )〕 and lies north and south of the lake system of the Lule River. It is situated by the Norwegian border. The area was declared a national park in 1909. The national park is part of the Laponian area which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Stora sjöfallet is also a part of Natura 2000 which is a network for protected areas in the European Union. == History == When the national park was created in 1909 the main reason for that was the great waterfall called Stour Muorkkegårttje in the Sami languages. The great waterfalls at the heart of the park were, in historic times, among the most powerful and visually striking in Europe, but relatively soon after the area was given its protected status, the government permitted hydroelectric development of the falls, which deprived the sheer drop of most of its visible water flow except for a few times a year and damaged the shorelines of Akkajaure. Later developments in this part of the park have included a power line, roads and gravel banks. Already in the 1960s the status as national park was questioned due to these severe changes, and today the area of the falls is no longer a part of the national park. Today the lake Akkajaure, that divides the park into two, is artificial. The name of the park comes from a five-level waterfall on the Lule River. Each one of the five levels has been named after a man that has been important in the history of Lapland. The first man is SG Hermelin (Hermelin's fall) who was a great entrepreneur in the industrial history of Norrbotten. Lars Levi Laestadius, the fonder of Laestadianism, and Düben, doctor and author of the book ''Om lappland och lapparne'', has also given name to levels in the fall. The two last levels has been named after Carl Anton Petterson who was the person that presented the Stora sjöfallet to the Swedish people and Henrik Adolf Widmark who was strongly committed to the mountains of Lapland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.storasjofallet.com/sevardheter.asp )〕 The mountains were formed about 400 million years ago when two continents collided. The sea between them disappeared and the sediment of the seabed were pressed together to a mountain range. There are still traces from the ice age in the area, for example terminal moraines and outcrops polished by the ice.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stora Sjöfallet National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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