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Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords (Karrebæk, Dybsø og Avnø Fjorde) are shallow coastal lagoons and fjords on southwestern Zealand, Denmark, a Ramsar site since 1977, important for wintering waterbirds and breeding gray seals.
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires (Lätäsenon-Hietajoen suot), Ramsar Site 1520 in Enontekiö, Lapland: a 43,367 ha palsa mire and river complex protected since 1988, part of Käsivarren erämaa Natura 2000 area.
Martimoaapa - Lumiaapa - Penikat Mires
Martimoaapa-Lumiaapa-Penikat Mires, also called Martimoaapa mire reserve, is a 14,086 ha Ramsar site no. 11 and Natura 2000 SAC/SPA in Simo and Keminmaa, Sea Lapland, Finland, designated in 1974, established as a mire reserve in 1981, with nearly 100 nesting bird species.
Muddus National Park
Muddus National Park (Sámi: Muttos), Norrbotten, Sweden: 49,340-ha national park founded 1942, Sweden's largest forest national park, with 700-year-old pines, the 42 m Muddus Waterfall, and Laponia World Heritage membership since 1996.
Olvassuo Mires
Olvassuo Mires (Finnish: Olvassuo) is a large, mostly pristine aapa mire complex in northern Finland, designated a Ramsar site in 2004 and known as a breeding ground for mire birds.
Store Mosse National Park
Store Mosse National Park: Sweden's largest active raised bog, 7,682 ha in Småland 15 km NE of Värnamo, national park since 1982, Ramsar site 20, Natura 2000 SE0310020, with Lake Kävsjön birdlife and 2023–2025 restoration.
Tärnasjön
Tärnasjön (Lake Tärna), Ramsar Site no. 29 in Västerbotten, Sweden, designated 5 December 1974; a 23,236 ha alpine lake on the upper Umeälven with the southernmost palsa mires in Sweden.
Torronsuo National Park
Torronsuo National Park (Torronsuon kansallispuisto), established 1990 in Tammela, Finland, protects the largest raised bog in southern Finland, 25.5 km², with peat up to 12 m deep, Natura 2000 and Ramsar status.
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning, Ramsar site 146 in Denmark's Limfjord (Nordjylland, 18,575 ha, designated 1977), a shallow fjord and dammed brackish lagoon of international importance for Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, and Light-bellied Brent Goose.
Vejlerne and Løgstør Bredning
Vejlerne and Løgstør Bredning: adjoining Limfjord wetlands in northern Jutland, Denmark; a 60 km² former land-reclamation area turned northern Europe's largest bird reserve, plus a 250 km² shallow fjord, jointly a 1977 Ramsar site.