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    The fox fires

    Posted by johnlewis 4 December 2008

    My choice for this would be somewhere in northern Finland, somewhere like Utsjoki or even better Ivalo.
    In northern Finland, which has very low levels of air pollution, the Lights ( in Finnish "revontulet", which means "fox's fires") are visible up to 200 times a year.
    I have seen them as far south as Kirkkonummi, 30 km west of Helsinki, but only very rarely.

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