Saimaa
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Saimaa is a lake located in the Finnish Lakeland area in southeastern Finland. With a surface area of approximately 4,279 square kilometres, it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth-largest n
Aerial view of frozen Lake Saimaa.
Hietasaari island on Lake Saimaa
Olavinlinna fortress on Lake Saimaa
Lake Saimaa shoreline
Saimaa ringed seal
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The Saimaa ringed seal is a species of seal. It is among the most endangered seals in the world, having a total population of only about 500 individuals. The only existing population of these seals is
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…here per unit of area than anywhere else in the world, the total length being nearly 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi)." An endangered freshwater seal, the Saimaa ringed seal, lives only at Saimaa. Another of the lake's endangered species is the Saimaa salmon. Due to its rich, easily accessible asbestos deposits, the shores…
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The Saimaa ringed seal swimming in Rantasalmi in September 2024
A stuffed Saimaa ringed seal at the Finnish Museum of Natural History.
1986 Finnish commemorative stamp designed by Pirkko Vahtero to the issue "EUROPA 1986 - Nature Conservation"; drawing with a Saimaa ringed seal in binocular view