High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago
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How it came to be
On the High Coast of Sweden and in Finland's Kvarken Archipelago, the land has been rising since the last ice sheet melted, and it still is. The ice retreated from the High Coast about 9,600 years ago, and the land has risen some 285 metres since.
It rises about 0.9 metres a century. The 5,600 islands of the Kvarken carry ridged washboard moraines, called De Geer moraines, left as the ice sheet melted. About 71% of the area is water.
The High Coast was inscribed in 2000, and the Kvarken Archipelago across the sea was added in 2006.
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