The Southern part of the border region is an uninhabited tundra, a part of the Kola Peninsula Tundra Ecoregion. It differs a lot from all the other areas that we visited: there are no trees, just dwarf and middle-sized shrubs, and although there is much water everywhere, it is not like the bogs. There are few mosses and peat, the ground is quite solid and water accumulates in pits. There are plenty of lichens and Black Crowberries on the ground and on the rocks. Lichens that cover the ground are so firm that walking here is like walking on pieces of plastic. It even makes a certain sound. Also, there were many smaller and bigger stones everywhere. As we usually do in more temperate areas, we lifted stones to search for spiders. Unlike in Central Europe, there were few spiders and arthropods under these: we had to turn up dozens to find a single specimen. Location: South of Grense Jakobselv. Date: 27.07.2011.
