Talk:Kiruna

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Is there room on this page for another picture of the church? I have a beautiful picture of it with snow falling all around it. I wanted to ask everyone first before changing anything. NPPyzixBlan 01:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe there's room for a separate article on the church? Like who built it, and what about its architecture is considered beautiful.. --62.46.145.110 11:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there any reason to have an unoffical IRC channel mentioned in an encyclopedia? It seems like a bad joke to me. Poktirity 11:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I wonder why this sentence reads "Kiruna will gradually move northwest to the foot of the Luossavaara mountain, by the lake of Luossajärvi." The word "vaara" means "mountain" (also can be a large hill) and the word "järvi" means lake. I don't think the translation of, let's say, "Lake Placid" would be "Lake Placid Järvi"; but simply "Placid Järvi". I think the sentence and similar ones should read: "Kiruna will gradually move northwest to the foot of Mount Luossa, by the Luossa lake." That or something similar; the current version seems redundant and a poor way to translate placenames. pete6982 03:04, 18 January 2007 (PST)

Nope, that is often how such a river is described. Just search for Torneälven river
Fred-Chess 21:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
The name "Luossavaara", "Jukkasjärvi", and so on, are the names in Swedish, even though their origins are Finnish. You say "berget Luossavaara" (the mountain Luossavaara), not "Luossaberget".
83.252.193.13 20:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/18/town.moving.reut/index.html


I removed the reference to the train company SJ AB, since they don't traffic northern Sweden. Ilmarinen swe 22:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't we add reference of the fact this is the hometown of Borje Salming?72.136.211.197 13:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)