Vänern
The Vänern is largest Lac of Sweden in Superficie (5 655 km ²) and in Volume (153 km ³). It is located in the southernmost part of Sweden. It is the third plus European big lake (after the Russian lakes Ladoga and Onega). The average altitude of its water is at 44 m above the sea level. Its average depth is of 27 m, but its maximum depth reaches 106 Mr. It is approximately 145 km long. Its principal tributary river is the Klarälven whose mouth is near to the town of Karlstad. The Göta älv connects the lake to the Cattégat.
Its banks are rock and wooded; except in its southernmost part, in the neighborhoods of Lidköping, where they are punts and cultivated.
The lake is surrounded by the historical provinces ( Landskap ) Swedish of:
- Västergötland (banks Eastern and Southerner),
- Dalsland (Western bank), and
- Värmland (septentrional bank).
The Channel Göta (Göta kanal) which connects Gothenburg to the the Baltic crosses the lake. It offers a maritime access to the lake ports of which most important are: Karlstad, Lidköping, Vänersborg, Kristinehamn, Åmål, Säffle and Mariestad.
The industry of the area of Vänern concentrates mainly in these ports. It specialized in particular in: the Tannery, the Metallurgy and the Paper mill.
Vänern, like the Vättern, was formed during the rising of the Scandinavian Péninsule at the end of the glacial last era and the withdrawal of the Baltic.
The name
The form most employed in French with the 21e century is Vänern . One will then tend to name the lake under the term Vänern . What is redundant, indeed the termination Swedish E - N corresponds to the definite article “it”; Vänern would mean “Väner then”. It would be then preferable to use in French the form Väner .In certain texts, often old, one finds the C-Ws communication Vener , Vèner or Venern , Vènern . They make it possible more accurately to transcribe the Swedish French pronunciation.
These orthographies are uncommon and can carry to confusion, one will thus take care to use the Swedish orthography Vänern .
See too
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