The Ylläs fell in Finland

Fell (from the Old Norse fjall, 'mountain') is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in parts of England and Scandinavia. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1016x344, 78 KB) Ylläs mountain in Finnish Lapland. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1016x344, 78 KB) Ylläs mountain in Finnish Lapland. ... Ylläs from Äkäslompolo Ylläs, or in Finnish Yllästunturi, is a 718 m high fell in Finland, Lapland. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... Lyskamm, 4 527 m, Pennine Alps A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ...

England

In Northern England, especially in the Lake District, the word "fell" originally referred to an area of uncultivated high ground used as common grazing. This meaning is found in the names of various breeds of livestock bred for life on the uplands, such as Rough Fell sheep and fell ponies. It is also found in many place names across the North of England, often attached to the name of a community; thus Seathwaite Fell, for example, would be the common grazing land used by the farmers of Seathwaite. Northern England, The North or North of England is a rather ill-defined term, with no universally accepted definition. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people -- often neighbouring landowners -- could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. ... Grazing To feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton. ... Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ... The Rough Fell is an upland breed of sheep, originating in the UK. It is common on its native mountain and moorland farms, its distribution embracing a large proportion of South Cumbria, parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, North Lancashire and, more recently, upland parts of Devon. ... N.B. A fell pony may also to refer to a particularly evil specimen of the general all-purpose horse-young. ... Seathwaite Fell is an area of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. ...

Today, however, the most common usage of the word "fell" is to refer to any one of the mountains and hills of the Lake District. This meaning tends to overlap with the previous one, especially where place names are concerned: in particular, names that originally referred to grazing areas tend to be applied to hilltops, as is the case with the aforementioned Seathwaite Fell. In other cases the reverse is true: for instance, the name of Wetherlam, in the Coniston Fells, though understood to refer to the mountain as a whole, strictly speaking refers to the summit; the slopes have names such as Tilberthwaite High Fell, Low Fell and Above Beck Fells. Lyskamm, 4 527 m, Pennine Alps A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... The panoramic view from Connors Hill, near Swifts Creek, Victoria A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. ... Wetherlam (2502 ft) is a mountain in the English Lake District. ... The Coniston Fells as a single unit - seen from Helvellyn. ...

As the most mountainous region of England, the Lake District is the area most closely associated with the sport of fell running, which takes its name from the fells of the district. "Fellwalking" is also the term used locally for the activity known in the rest of Great Britain as hillwalking. Fell running, also known as mountain running and hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. ... Hillwalking or fellwalking is the recreational practice of hiking in mountainous terrain. ...

Scandinavia and Finland

In Scandinavia, a fell (fjell in Norwegian, fjäll in Swedish, tunturi in Finnish; "tunturi" is of the same Sami origin as the word tundra.) is a treeless mountain landscape that has been shaped by glacier ice earlier in history. Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... Sami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ... A glacier is a large, persistent body of ice, formed largely of compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity. ...

An example in Finland is Korvatunturi, the legendary homeplace of Joulupukki, the Finnish Santa Claus. Korvatunturi is a fell in Lapland, on the border of Finland (in the municipality of Savukoski) and Russia. ... Joulupukki is the Finnish name for Santa Claus. ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ...

See also

• List of fells in the Lake District

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (from wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... This is a list of fells, hills, mountains, groups of mountains and subsidiary summits and tops in the Lake District, England. ...

References

Wainwright, A., "Coniston Old Man" in A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book Four: The Southern Fells (London:Francis Lincoln, [1960] 2003), p. 15. ISBN 0-7112-2230-4 Alfred Wainwright c. ... The Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the English Lake District. ...