KARESUANDO SWEDEN
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP83-00423R000301590014-8
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
C
Document Page Count:
6
Document Creation Date:
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 21, 1998
Sequence Number:
14
Case Number:
Publication Date:
April 13, 1951
Content Type:
REPORT
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PLACE s KARESUANDO COUNT
Population: About, 1,O Q
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SWEDEN
Provinces Lappland
Date of Observation: 13 Apr. 51
General Description:
Farming village, educational center, focus of religion life of surrounding Lapps.
Transport junction for road traffic between north Sweden and Finland. Becoming
significant as junction for through traffic over land through North Norway via
Kautokeino. Lapp trading center.
Geographic Description:
Low rolling country around valley of Muonio River at foot of plateau which rises
to highlands west of Norwegian border.
Note Muonio River is boundary between r'inland and 6weden until its junction with
the Torne River which it follows to the sea at Tornio.
Occupations:
Agricultural Fishing Industrial
Hay and dairy farming Summer fishing for Minor local
Some Reindeer in Hinterland local use on river
especially on plateau and lakes.
Natural Vegetation:
Birch woods with some pine which extends part way to Syvajarvi on the north.
Land Forms and. Geolog5r:
Low rolling terrain, old lake bottoms, river terraces. Town on a peninsula between
lake and river.
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Population. (racial, cultural, linguistic): Was originally Lapp now Swedish and Lapp
with-considerable Finnish intermixture. All three languages are used locally.
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Temperatures: _4?C
Precipitation: About one foot of snow on last day, on top of general snow
cover.
Clouds: Ten-tenths, wind south #5.
Other: Strop bl d bl
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zzar owing which may be exceptional at this season.
Low pressure area from northwest.
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Source:
Local hydroelectric
Voltages Cycle:
Telephone
Telegraph
TRANSPORTATION: (From: Karesuando Tot Vittan i and Ka,tokeino and Haparand?
Railways None
Stations
Ballasts
Power s
Gauge :
Bridges:
Highways:
Route No's :;;'343 to Vittangi, #400 to Haparanda. No road north.
Note - A new road follows Finnish side of Muonio River from southern r'inland
Surface Type: Gravel to Nor. Highway 7V50 at
3 Two-car
Seasonal Uses All year., except route to Norway.
Underpass
: Modern bridge on highway in Karesuando.
Complete local
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PLACE (contsd): KARESUAND0
SECURITY .ORM-4TI9N
Ferries:
Location: Near church in Karesuando across Muonio River to Katavuopio in
Finland.
Tonnage s
Capacity' 6 cars and foot passengers
Scheduiess Closed for Winter, ice with 8 ton limit used.
Steamerss
Routing:
Tonnages'
Capacity'
Schedules:
Bus Routes: All season - Kiruna by way of Vittangi and Svappavaara, Haparanda
via Pajala. Norway via Skibotn 6ununer only. Norway via Kautokeino
Suni ne rs snowmobile winter only.
Other Transportations
Road distances Vittangi 110 kms. Kiruna 185 kms., Pajala 190 kms., and Haparanda
380 kms.
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No local plans
Scale Date
German Army Typographic 1:300,000 1914
Swedish Turist-Kartan Road Map Sheet i24
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PLACE (coat' d) : KARESUANDO
Guide and Other Books: None except sections o#Cug XJNftTI g. S.T.F. Hotel Guide
Title Author Date pubiisheell M(6i.st's
PERSONAL DATA:
Date of travel to this place: A 2, 'rl Arrived: 10:30 pm.
Starting Point: Galan;to Departed'% 6:30am Ayr. 14, '51
Distance traveled (in kms):
Ve''aicles Used; indeer sl edgee
Where stayed:
CONTACTS:
25X1X6
Grapes Hotel
Comment" Good
Name Address Position T.ph. Comment
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PLACE (cont'd), KARESUANDO
Photographs,
Purchased locally:
CONFlGAHAI
Takens Color and black and white. General views of village, school, etc.
Sketches Mader
Location
Description
Type
None apart from m nor local needs.
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SEAPORTS s SECURIrINFRRMATION
General Comments
Cargo Handlings
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Wharves
Name
Lighterss
Location
Location. Depth
Tonnage Comments
Repair Facilities
Machine Shops t
Foundries
Dry docks:
Salvage gears
Supplies Available
Water
Coal
Provisions Oil-Fuel
Engineering Diesel Fuel
Deck
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