But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

This is the far north of Europe, close to the North Pole. It’s part of the Arctic tundra. Tundra biomes only have two seasons: winter and summer. Winters are long, dark and cold with average ...