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Vä·nern

 (vā′nərn, vĕ′-)
A lake of southwest Sweden. It is the largest lake in the country and navigable for small oceangoing ships via the Göta Canal.
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Vänern

(Swedish ˈvɛːnərn)
n
(Placename) Lake Vänern a lake in SW Sweden: the largest lake in Sweden and W Europe; drains into the Kattegat. Area: 5585 sq km (2156 sq miles)
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Vä•nern

(ˈvɛn ərn)

n.
a lake in SW Sweden. 2141 sq. mi. (5545 sq. km).
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According to the Swedish National Food Agency, particularly high concentrations of PCBs are present in fatty fish like Baltic herring and wild-caught salmon from polluted areas, such as the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, and Lakes Vanern and Vattern.
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Analysis of the mtCOI gene revealed two main clades as a phylogenetic tree and a network of haplotypes: a clade with Fennoscandian populations in Lake Paajarvi (Finland) and Lake Vanern (Sweden), and a second clade with populations in Lake Vortsjarv (Estonia), Orlov Pond in Saint Petersburg (Russia), and the type locality of the species in Lake Geneva (Switzerland).
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In Baltoscandinavia, Ordovician bedrock is mainly preserved in intracratonic basins: Vanern, Vattern, the Southern Bothnian basin and the Central Baltic basin (e.g.
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The river leads from lake Vanern (5,655 km (2), the third largest lake in Europe, item 3 in Figure 1) to the Kattegatt (connected to the North Sea/Atlantic Ocean).
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The areas of the 4 largest lakes of Sweden (Vanern, Vattern, Malaren, and Hjalmaren) and sea water areas were calculated separately by municipality.
Epidemiology and ecology of Tularemia in Sweden, 1984-2012
By its surface area (3555 [km.sup.2]), Peipsi is the fourth largest lake in Europe after lakes Ladoga, Onego, and Vanern. The lake is shallow with a mean water depth of 7.1 m and a maximum depth of 15.3 m (Jaani, 2001).
Recreational ice fishing on the large Lake Peipsi: socioeconomic importance, variability of ice-cover period, and possible implications for fish stocks
Even her childhood playhouse remains as it was in the garden, and they go to nearby Lake Vanern to pray where their daughter's ashes were scattered after her funeral in London.
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"Before flying out for the trial we will stand around Lake Vanern in her home town of Mariestad where Anni's ashes are scattered and pray that justice is finally done."
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The waterjet-powered navy vessel has us outmanoeuvred as we cruise on the sailing ship on Lake Vanern, the largest lake in Sweden, on a fine summer's evening.
Water world: engineers at Rolls-Royce's Hydrodynamic Research Centre are working to develop more fuel-efficient propellers and waterjets. Ben Hargreaves reports from Sweden

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