Sweden's largest rapid, Sweden's largest ghost town, the world's highest wooden house and the world's largest cheese slicer Something we learnt this summer while travelling in northern Sweden is that although there are plenty of rivers in this country there are not many waterfalls. Instead there are plenty of rapids, and they can be pretty spectacular too. We will start this blog entry by writing about the largest rapid in all of Sweden, Storforsen. Storforsen Storforsen, or the Great Rapid, is not only the largest rapid in Sweden. It would rank pretty high on a list of the greatest rapids in Europe as well. The rapid is untouched by the hydro power industry, as is the entire Pite River which is the river that feeds Storforsen. But Storforsen has sort of been regulated by the logging
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