Borovichev E.A. Botanical excursion on the Northern Soroya. Hammerfest, 2014.

The richly indented coastline o fthe northern Soroya includes hard cliffs with narrow strips o fsand below them in the more shallow bays Features o f land and climate Peninsula and Karelia). Fennoscandia is characterized by very ancient bedrocks. Near the middle o f the Paleozoic era western Fennoscandia rose and was folded during the Caledonian orogeny and uplifted in the late Tertiary forming a part o f the Caledonia range. The sedimentary rocks werefolded during Caledonian orogeny and then uplifted, broken and eroded The Soroya is situated 15 km west o f Hammerfest, and divided between two municipalities in Finnmark county - Hammerfest and Hasvik. This is the fourth largest island in Norway, with a surface area o f 812 knr. It belongs to Fennoscandia, a physic- geographical area which includes Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia (Kola Though the Scandes descend gradually to the north, true alpineforms with sharply rugged ridges andpeaks are not rare on the Soroya 14