Scandinavia
Scandinavia was a completely new area for geocaching for me when I first visited in June 2024. Not that I’ve never been there at all, but I’d never been there as a geocacher.
In fact, it was so long ago that I’d previously been that they probably hadn’t even put the GPS satellites up. That was away back in 1990, when I spent a summer living in Gothenburg with work, and made trips to Copenhagen, Lund, Malmö and Oslo while I was there. I watched the famous 1990 men’s football World Cup with Swedish commentary.
So what is Scandinavia? I guess in purely practical terms it’s a collection of countries on Europe’s northern edge that have a number of cultural similarities and a fair amount of shared history. It seems that the reality is more complicated. It might just mean the big peninsula, and hence not Denmark. But generally Denmark is seen as Scandinavia, along with Sweden and Norway.
So what about Finland? They’re a little different culturally, especially with being next-door to Russia. But a lot of people would see them as Scandinavian too. Or maybe Nordic. That’s another generic grouping, and it generally includes the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. Two of those three are constituents of the Kingdom of Denmark, which may, or may not, be Scandinavian.
So “yes” is probably the best answer, if only because I’ve forgotten the question.
- At this point then, my only caching visit to Scandinavia is a week-long holiday in and around Copenhagen at the start of June 2024.
Here are all the geocaching blog posts I’ve written about Scandinavia.
