South Swedish highlands

Aerial view of farms and forest in Ydre Municipality.
The forested landscape of the South Swedish highlands, seen from Skuruhatt in Eksjö Municipality.

The South Swedish highlands or South Swedish Uplands[1] (Swedish: Sydsvenska höglandet) are a hilly area covering large parts of Götaland in southern Sweden. Except for a lack of deep valleys, the landscape is similar to the Norrland terrain found further north in Sweden.[2] The central-eastern parts of the highlands contain about thirty narrow canyons locally known as skurus.[3]

Much of the highlands lies above 200 m.a.s.l. and there are large areas around the highlands that exceed 100 m.a.s.l. The highlands are centered on Småland but cover also large swathes of Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and Blekinge.[4] The highest point lies 377 m.a.s.l.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Karna2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lundqvist, Jan (1969). "Landskapet". In Lundqvist, Magnus (ed.). Det Moderna Sverige (in Swedish). Bonniers. pp. 64–67.
  3. ^ Olvmo, Mats (2006). "Skuruna i Småland". Geologiskt Forum (in Swedish). 50: 8–11. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  4. ^ Åkerhielm, Erik (1912). "Sydsvenska höglandet". Geografien i skildingar och bilder (in Swedish). Lund. pp. 49–90. Retrieved June 7, 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Lidmar-Bergström, Karna; Bonow, Johan M.; Japsen, Peter (2013). "Stratigraphic Landscape Analysis and geomorphological paradigms: Scandinavia as an example of Phanerozoic uplift and subsidence". Global and Planetary Change. 100: 153–171. Bibcode:2013GPC...100..153L. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.015.