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NARRATOR:
This is Finland,
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as you’ve never seen it before.
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From above, we’ll revealone of Europe’s last frontiers,
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where the Finnish peopleblend ancient skills
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with ingenious new technology
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to conquer the wild terrain.
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♪♪
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In this series,
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we’ll takean aerial tour across Europe,
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filmed over the courseof a single year
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and through the changing seasons.
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We will uncover the culture,
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history, and engineering
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that built the greatEuropean nations we see today.
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Finland is one of Europe’smost sparsely-populated countries.
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The north is an arctic wilderness
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with borders to Norway,Sweden, and Russia.
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The south is where mostof the 5.5 million Finns live
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in cities clusteredaround the capital, Helsinki,
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and in seaports upits long Baltic coastline.
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Finland’s industries,
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including high-grade steel,paper, and timber,
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rely on the Baltic seaports
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for ninety percent of their tradewith the rest of the world.
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Many of these vital hubsface a unique challenge
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when the weather gets colder
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and the sea freezes,
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as winter comes to Finland.
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For half the year,
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the northern tip of the Baltic sea
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appears brilliant whitefrom a thick layer of sea ice.
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Looking closer reveals a mystery,
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a port with strange lines inthe ice that stretch towards it.
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The port is Tornio.
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It’s Finland’s most northerly port,
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and a crucial hub forthe country’s steel industry.
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In winter, seen from above,
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powerful reinforced vessels,called icebreakers,
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smash snaking paths through the sea ice
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for cargo ships to follow.
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But these shorelinesare filled with hidden dangers,
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so the cargo skippersneed specialist help
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to guide their ships into port.
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Kaj Hahtonen is a local ship’s pilot.
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It’s his job to climb aboardincoming vessels,
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and steer them safely throughthe treacherous ice lanes.
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KAJ HAHTONEN:
Finland has the rockiest
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and shallowest coastline in Europe.
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You need to be very careful
on navigating these waters.
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NARRATOR:
Today, Kaj needs to guide
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the mammoth 100 meter Bellaland
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into Tornio harbor.
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It’s carrying 3,000 tons of limestone
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used to make steel.
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In summer, he couldreach the ship by boat
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and jump aboard,
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But in winter,
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he needs a unique mega-machine
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to cross the eight kilometers of sea ice:
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a fan-powered craft
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called a hydrocopter.
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The giant fan pushesthe hydrocopter across the ice
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on buoyant skids,
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powered by a 400-horsepowerconverted car engine.
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Kaj and colleague Harlu
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skim across the frozen seaat 20 kilometers an hour.
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But the closer they getto the shipping lane,
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the weaker the ice becomes.
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So Kaj must make the final partof his journey on foot.
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Trailing behind an icebreaker,
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the Bellaland can’t stop,
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or it risks getting stuck in the ice.
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Our unique aerial view
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reveals Kaj’s astonishingboarding solution:
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a portable ramp to cross the broken ice
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and jump aboard the moving ship.
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(speaking over radio in other language)
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HAHTONEN:
Boarding a ship from the ice
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has always risks,
so one step could be fatal.
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You always havea little bit of adrenaline
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running in your blood.
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NARRATOR:
Eight kilometers out,
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the sea below Kaj’s feetis 11 meters deep,
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and zero degrees Celsius.
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He can’t afford to put a foot wrong.
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♪♪
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(Hahtonen speaking other language)
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HAHTONEN:
Hello.
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(speaking other language)
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(man speaking other language
over radio)
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NARRATOR:
Safely on board,
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Kaj climbs to the bridgeto instruct the captain.
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HAHTONEN:
Good morning, Captain.
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NARRATOR: Kaj’s job isn’t just
to avoid the dangerous shallows
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as he approaches the harbor.
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He needs just enough momentum
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to prevent ice fromforcing the ship to a halt.
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HAHTONEN:
Sometimes the ship crews are
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so unfamiliar with the conditions that
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they are a little bit afraid
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of using heavy power against the ice.
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NARRATOR:
It takes an hour for Kaj
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to guide Bellaland
safely into Tornio’s port,
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and the icebreaker peels away.
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Kaj must now bringthe ship to the dockside,
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but thousands of tonsof floating ice sit in his way.
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Our unique aerial view captures Kaj’s
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clever clearing solutionlike never before.
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He first anchors the noseof the ship against the dockside,
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and then puts the engineson full thrust.
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This creates a current of water
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that slowly draws the floating ice away.
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Only when enough ice is driven clear
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can Kaj safely bring the vesseltight to the dock for unloading.
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HAHTONEN:
Getting a firm handshake of the captain,
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for me, means to me that
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I’ve done my job properly.
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Helped the ship get into port safely,
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and probably a lot faster
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NARRATOR:
Tornio relies on mega ships like these
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to keep its steel plants running.
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But this port is alsothe historic gateway
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to Finland’s largest and mostnortherly region:
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Lapland.
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Famous for being the homeof Santa Claus,
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most of Finland’s largest regionsits north of the Arctic Circle,
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and is cloaked in darkness fortwo straight months each winter.
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This vast and sprawling area
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covers 100,000 square kilometers.
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Looking closer from above
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reveals a huge expanse of land,
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with frozen lakes, open tundra,
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and birch shrub-land.
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But this wilderness is far from empty.
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It’s home to one of the world’smost beloved creatures:
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reindeer.
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There are about200,000 reindeer in Finland,
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but surprisingly, these animalsare not fully wild.
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They share a unique relationship
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with one of Europe’s lastremaining indigenous people:
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the Sami.
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Nils-Matti Vasara is a Sami herder,
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just like his father,
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and his father before him.
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NILS-MATTI VASARA:
We are the people who have always
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inhabited this land.
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My roots go back 600 years.
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NARRATOR:
In winter, temperatures here
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can plunge as low as minus 30,
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and in recent yearsthe snowfall has increased,
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impacting the reindeer’s ability
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to forage for natural vegetation.
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So Nils-Matti must now supplement
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his thousand-strong herd’s diet.
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Today, he must load upwith hay and pellets for them.
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But before he can feed his reindeer,
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Nils-Matti faces a huge challenge...
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he must find them.
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Reindeer are always movingin a search for food.
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Nils-Matti knows his herdwill head into the wind
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as they try to findthe smell of fresh grazing.
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He sets off on his snowmobiletowards a valley
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where he thinks he will find them.
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VASARA:
I know this land in detail.
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I have not yet applied
modern technology.
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It is not as reliable as I am.
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NARRATOR:
The reindeer are just where he predicted.
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And they flock to the soundof his snowmobile.
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Sami have always reliedon reindeer for food,
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clothing, and shelter.
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Without them, life this far northwould have been impossible.
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Nils-Matti spreads out the food
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to make sure everyonegets their fair share.
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And then he scansthe landscape for stragglers.
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Once he’s happythe entire herd is together,
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he unloads the last of the feed.
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VASARA:
The best place in this world,
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it's with the reindeer.
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Nothing comes before them.
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It’s always been like that,all my life,
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and shall remain for as long as I live.
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NARRATOR: Winter can last
for up to seven months in Finland.
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But as its grip loosens,
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the landscape transformsfrom white to blue and green.
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Waterways wakefrom a deep icy slumber
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as spring comes to Finland.
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(birds chirping)
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In the cities of the south,
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including Turku, the nation’s oldest;
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Tampere,its industrial powerhouse;
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and Helsinki,the rapidly-expanding capital,
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the warmer weather brings Finnsback out onto the streets.
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But this presents new challenges.
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Helsinki is Finland’s largest city,
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home to 1.5 million people.
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From above, we can see its urban heart
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is clustered on a small peninsula
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surrounded by more than 330 islands.
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The city’s five main bridges
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become pinch points forroad traffic heading into the center.
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The Finns have developedthe perfect solution
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to help take cars off the streets:
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a city-wide tram system.
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It is able to carrylarge numbers of people
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around Helsinki like a train,
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but still use the city’s narrow streets,just like a bus.
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It is Anssi Koponen’s job
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to keep all 11 tram linesin perfect working order.
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He drives a specially-equippedmaintenance vehicle,
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affectionately known as the banana tram,
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because it’s yellow.
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ANSSI KOPONEN:
Our maintenance tram is pretty rare.
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You can’t find those in many places,
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especially in winter.
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Those found in Helsinki are unique.
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NARRATOR:
Anssi sets off,
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heading towards the bustling city center.
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Street litter can easilyget stuck in the sunken rails,
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so this ingenious yellow vehicle
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is fitted with multiplebrushes to its underside.
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They sweep any debris,like coins and stones,
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that could jam or derail the trams.
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From above, Anssi’s challengelooks like a video game
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as he times his cleaning runsto dodge people,
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cars, and passenger trams.
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As Anssi and the banana tram
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wind along the narrow streets,
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his journey takes him pastsome of Helsinki’s
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most important sites,
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including the very heart oftoday’s nation: Senate Square.
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This grand plaza was built for Finland’s
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most important institutions
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when Helsinki was made its new capital,
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and the country was absorbedinto the Russian empire in 1809.
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Its Neoclassical buildingsare home to Helsinki Cathedral,
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the National Library,Helsinki University,
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and the Government Palace,
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from where the Declaration ofIndependence from Russia
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was drafted in 1917.
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Anssi reachesthe very end of the peninsula,
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arriving at Helsinki’s all-important port.
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This area, with its colorfulearly 20th century houses,
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is one of the most sought-afterplaces in the city to live.
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Anssi must now tackle
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the most crucial job on his route,
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and clean the most crowdedstreet in the city:
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Mannerheimintie.
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Seven tram lines convergeon this busy road.
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Anssi needs to waitfor the perfect gap
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to dart between the constantflow of city trams.
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Helsinki’s busiest road
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is also home to some of the city’s
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most striking modern architecture:
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the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
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this spectacular central public library,
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its wave-like exteriormade from Finnish spruce;
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and the world-famous Olympic stadium,
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completed in 1938.
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Anssi and his banana tram
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successfully dodge the unrelentingpassenger trams.
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He can finally head backto the depot,
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knowing he’s kept thisdynamic capital moving.
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KOPONEN:
It’s a nice feeling.
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You know you’ve doneyour job properly,
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and everything on the tracks
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It’s nice to drive the tram
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The majority of Finland’s population
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live in bustling urban centers,
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but many still maintain a connection
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to the country’s vast wilderness.
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Holiday cabins, known as mökki ,
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a tranquil escape from modern life,
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dot the rural landscape,
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particularly on the shores of the lakes
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in the heavily-forested east.
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But these lakes aren’tjust home to humans,
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and spring is the perfect time
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to take one of the world’smost important head counts.
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From high above,south-eastern Finland
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appears punctured bymore than 100,000 lakes.
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The largest of these is Lake Saimaa.
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It’s an extraordinary sinuousmaze of water
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carved during the last ice age.
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The lake is one of the most picturesquelandscapes in Finland,
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and its waters supporta wealth of wildlife,
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including one of the world’smost endangered species:
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the Lake Saimaa seal.
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Today, there are around400 of these animals
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living in the wild.
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This makes them one of the rarestseal species in the world.
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Jouni Koskela isa conservation scientist
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helping to protect them.
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JOUNI KOSKELA:
If the weather is fine,
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we can see one or two seals,
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or even five seals
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For most of the year,
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the seals live in the open water,
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making them near impossible to spot.
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But every spring, these animalscome out of the water
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for a short period to lay in the sun
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and molt their winter coatson the shore of this giant lake.
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It’s a vital window for Jounito perform a head count
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and to map wherethe seals hang out.
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From high above the lake,
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the scale of Jouni’s taskbecomes clear.
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The lake spreads outover 1,000 square kilometers.
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That’s around the sizeof the city of Los Angeles.
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And the 400 sealscould be anywhere
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on the thousands of islands
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and rocks that lie scatteredlike confetti.
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It takes an hour of searching
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before Jouni spots his first seal,
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a grey speck on a rock,
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easily unnoticed by the untrained eye.
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The seal’s unique markingsperfectly camouflage them
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on the lake’s lichen-covered rocks.
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They’re one of only three seal species
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to thrive in fresh water.
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KOSKELA:
Every time when I see a seal,
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it is a very,very nice experience for me,
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because most of the timethe seal is living in water,
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and it cannot be seen.
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Jouni takes down the seal's location
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using a GPS tracker.
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It’s crucial he records
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the seal’s favorite sunbathing locations
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to protect the land fromfuture housing developments.
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Efforts like this, along witha ban on dangerous fishing gear,
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have more than tripledthe number of seals
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since action was taken in the 1980s.
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And conservationists are now seeing
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record numbers of new pups being born.
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Jouni continues his search,
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and over the next five hours,finds two more seals.
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It’s slow work,
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but Jouni knows how important it is
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for the Saimaa seal,
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and for the pride of a nation.
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KOSKELA: The future of
Saimaa seal depends on us,
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us Finnish people.
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And if we want to save the seal,
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then after ten years,
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20 years, 50 years, there areeven more seals than now.
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In Finland’s Arctic north,
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the days begin to merge into one.
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The sun won't set herefor another 60 days.
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In the urban south,
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Helsinki’s residents flockto the city’s beaches
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to make the most ofthe long-awaited warm weather.
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Summer has arrived.
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This coastline is not just
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a place to relax in the sun.
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For centuries, Helsinki’s coastline
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has defined Finland’s history.
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In the early 1700s,
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Sweden ruled the Baltic sea.
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But it faced a battle for supremacy
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from an expanding Russian fleet.
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Swedish-held Helsinki,sandwiched between the two,
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was a key military target for Russia.
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This is Suomenlinna,
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an island fortress builtby the Swedes in 1748
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to guard against the Russian Navy.
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From above, we can seeits defenses are vast,
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and stretch oversix interconnected islands.
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The unusual star-shaped fortifications
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gave the cannons unrestricted range
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to protect the access straightinto Helsinki’s sheltered bay.
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Today, it is a leadingtourist attraction in the city.
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But there’s one part ofthis remarkable structure
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that’s still in use:
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its dry dock.
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This gigantic ship repair yard
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is one of the oldestin Europe still in operation.
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It’s a misty morningin the first week of summer,
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and temperaturesare still below ten degrees.
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For Jouni Wirta, it’s a big day.
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He and his team have beenworking all winter
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to restore 16 vessels here.
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Now it’s time to flood the dock
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and launch the repaired shipsinto Helsinki Harbor
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for the first time this year.
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JOUNI WIRTA:
It’s kind of us
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starting off the sailing season,
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so it’s also our time to celebrate.
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(Jouni Wirta speaking other language)
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Everything in this 250-year-old dock
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must be operated by hand.
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Jouni and two volunteersuse brute force
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to turn the wheelsthat open each valve,
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flooding the historic dock
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with thousands of tons of sea water.
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It takes three hours
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until the firstof the 16 boats begin to float.
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The dock is a hive of activityas Jouni and his team
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make final preparationsto launch the ships
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onto the open sea.
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Workers race to crane masts into place.
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And with our unique aerial view,
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we can see the heightsthe team must scale
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to secure the huge sails.
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WIRTA: The rigging is the most
important part of the ship.
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And so of course it is a nicething to see the mast go on,
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and to put on the sails,
and the oars, and it moves.
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NARRATOR:
All the boats are ready,
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but Jouni still hasone more job to do.
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His strongest volunteersmust pull the monster
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100-ton dock gate to one side.
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The first of the boats can now sail
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past Suomenlinna’s fortifications,
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a sight unchanged for 250 years.
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For Jouni and his team,
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it’s time to celebratein traditional Finnish style.
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WIRTA:
When all this work is done,
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we normally go to one of
the ships that has a sauna.
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We go and have a sauna,maybe a couple beers.
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Finland’s enthusiasm for saunas
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goes back centuries.
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The earliest recordsof fire-heated rooms here
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date back to the 12th century.
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Now there are overthree million saunas in Finland,
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at least one for every two people.
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Today, the city dwellers of Helsinki
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have the option to usea unique waterfront sauna,
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and it could be the mostunusual one ever built.
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This is the incredibleHelsinki Sky Sauna.
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This may look likea regular Ferris wheel,
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but from above we can seeone gondola looks different.
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It has been convertedinto a fully-functioning sauna.
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It hoists red-hot guests
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40 meters into the air,
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for unparalleled views across the city.
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It’s Katri Kahonen’s job to look afterthis unique structure,
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and ensure its guests enjoya traditional Finnish experience.
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Each morning, before the wheelopens for business,
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she checks the mechanismis free of defects,
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and replaces anythingthat looks worn.
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It’s ten o’clock, and withher maintenance work finished,
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it’s time to open the wheel.
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Matilda, Upi, and Linnea
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are here for their firsthigh-flying sauna experience.
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Katri ensures they are all setfor takeoff.
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SAUNA GUEST 1:
Usually we think that the sauna
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is supposed to be on the ground,
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because, of course, you need a fire.
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And as traditional Finns,
you also need wood,
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which is found on the ground.
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(speaking other language)
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But now suddenly we were, I don't know,
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30, 40 meters up in the air,
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uh, so pretty... pretty unique.
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It’s a crazy concept
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that’s proving popular,
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and is an engineeringchallenge to pull off.
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The engineers aren’t ableto run a cable
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directly to the power-hungry sauna.
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It would soon get tangled up.
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Instead, a power line
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runs directlyto a specially-designed axle.
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From there, a cable can run upa spoke to the outer ring,
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where another smaller axleallows electricity
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to reach the sauna.
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This ingenious designallows them to create
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a one-of-a-kind saunain the sky.
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KATRI KAHONEN:
The sauna is a part of our culture,
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and us Finnish people
tend to be quite shy.
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But when we go to the sauna,
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it’s like we are there naked
with random people,
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so it’s a lot of fun.
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NARRATOR:
As the summer rolls on,
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the days stretch longer inFinland’s vast wooded interior.
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Seventy-two perfect of Finlandis covered by forest,
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more than any other nation in Europe.
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It’s a vital industry for the country,
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with timber accountingfor twenty percent of all exports,
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and is used in everything,from construction,
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to the paperfor magazines and newspapers.
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From above, central Finlandappears a striking green
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because of its large forests.
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But getting harvested timberfrom remote depots
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to the saw millsand paper factories
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is a huge logistical challenge.
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The Finns have developedan ingenious way
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to haul this precious national resource.
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Essa Korhonen supervises
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a vast operation that harnesses
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the power of Finland’sextensive network of waterways.
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He oversees the creationof giant log rafts
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that float sustainable timber
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from over a million hectares of forest
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to saw mills on the shores of Lake Saimaa.
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ESA KORHONEN:
I must admit that the apple
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has not fallen far from the tree.
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My father worked in forestry.
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It was in my mind even when
I was just a young boy.
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NARRATOR:
Today, Esa has a huge job on his hands.
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He has to build a 12,000-ton secure raft
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to safely float 270 kilometers
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through the winding lake.
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The giant cargo must survive everything
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Finland’s weatherand landscapes throw at it
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to prevent holding upthe saw mill’s operations.
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KORHONEN:
There are many risks.
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The rafts contain hundreds
of truck loads of timber,
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with a total value of millions.
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NARRATOR:
The construction of a raft
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is an intricate operation.
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A log loader lifts outthe first huge bundle of logs
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from the truck,
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and carefullydrops them into the water.
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The tug boat captainskillfully guides
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the smaller bundlesinto place at full throttle.
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Now it’s time for Esa’steam of log walkers
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to use steel cablesto tie the logs together.
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These highly-trained workersmust be careful
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to ensure the raftwon’t break up on its voyage,
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potentially causing havocon the busy inland waterways.
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♪♪
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KORHONEN:
The Finnish forest industry
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was born on the shoresof Lake Saimaa,
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because Saimaa has provided
great transport conditions,
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00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,640
and continues to offer them.
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We want to use these conditionsto our advantage
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while respecting nature.
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NARRATOR:
Esa’s gigantic mega-raft
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is finally on the move.
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Our unique aerial view
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captures the enormous sizeof this mighty structure
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that stretches for almost a kilometer.
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It's built from 52,000 trees
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tied together in 700 bundles.
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Over the next six days,
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Esa’s team will work day and night,
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driving this timber along these waterways,
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dropping bundles offat saw mills along the route.
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Despite the rising demandfor its timber,
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Finland's careful management
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means that its forestsare currently expanding,
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00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,800
and shuttling logs this way,
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rather than using trains and lorries,cuts emissions,
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00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,920
and continues the industry’sdrive for sustainability.
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KORHONEN:
I have worked for about 25 years,
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and I believe that timber floating
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has an important partto play in the future.
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NARRATOR:
The long summer days are almost over.
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Soon the nights will draw in,
553
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,120
and the temperatures will drop.
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00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,240
In northern Finland,
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the first snow and ice begins to appear.
556
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:54,520
Further south,
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the colder weather transformsFinland’s deciduous forests
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to a patchwork of red and gold.
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00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,480
Autumn is here.
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♪♪
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Of all Finland’s vastand varied landscapes,
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perhaps the most spectacularis situated at its southern tip.
563
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,240
Finland’s south-western cornerappears to crumble
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00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,200
into the Baltic seain a series of large islands.
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A closer look revealssomething extraordinary.
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Vast groups of smaller islandslie between the bigger ones,
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and hiding between them,yet more islands,
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tightly-packed like pebbleson a beach.
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Together, they are thought to beamong the biggest collection
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of islands in the world,
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the Archipelago Sea.
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Finland’s Archipelago Seais a natural habitat
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without equal in the world.
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Some of the islands are largeand forested,
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others treeless.
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But all offer a bountiful arrayof habitats
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for terrestrialand aquatic wildlife to thrive.
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Marine biologist Katja Makinen
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lives and worksin this spectacular landscape.
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KATJA MAKINEN:
I’ve always lived near the sea.
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For me, like, living close to nature
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and being close to nature
is really important.
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So what could be a better placefor it than this place?
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NARRATOR:
In early autumn, Katja,
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along with her colleagues
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at the Archipelago Research Institute,
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00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,360
turn their attentionto an astonishing phenomenon
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00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,040
that turns the watersurrounding the islands
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00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,400
into a kaleidoscope of color.
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00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:55,800
From high above the clouds,
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00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,280
the dark blue Baltic waters
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00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,000
transform into a seriesof turquoise swirls.
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00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,800
Tendrils of color wrap aroundthe islands like candy floss,
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00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,040
and even appear to linkthe islands together.
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00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,640
The swirls are vast blooms of algae,
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00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,280
a microscopic plant thatsuddenly appears in huge numbers
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00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,280
when the sea is warm and calm.
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00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,000
They are caused by fertilizer run-off
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from the surrounding farmland.
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For Katja,they’re an unwelcome sight.
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MAKINEN:
It causes overgrowth of algae
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which then can lead to these,like, nuisance algal blooms.
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NARRATOR:
When the blooms die off in autumn,
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they can harm marine lifearound them.
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00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,880
So today, Katja collectssamples to investigate
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00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,400
what impact this year’s bloomshave left behind.
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00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:09,440
The health of Finland’s Archipelago
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00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,000
is a prize worth fighting for.
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00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,320
It's home to a unique wildlife,
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00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,840
found nowhere else in Finland.
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Katja and the teamare finished for today.
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The team’s work is raisingawareness of the algal blooms
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00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,000
in an attempt to stopthis colorful problem
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00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,040
from getting worse.
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00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:35,880
MAKINEN:
It’s been really good to see
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that these efforts have hada positive impact
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00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,840
for the health of the sea.
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00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,160
But there’s still a lotmore work to be done.
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♪♪
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NARRATOR:
Almost 1,000 kilometers away
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in Lapland,
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sub-zero temperatureshave the landscape
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in an icy grasp.
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00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,280
This expansive regionhas once again
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00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,640
turned almost uniformly white.
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00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:12,480
But look closer,
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00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,840
and a strange pattern emerges:
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00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,000
an assortment of straits and curves.
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This is the world’s largesttest center for winter tires.
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00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,080
Its 30 tracks are knownas the White Hell.
631
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:40,120
Nokian Tyres establishedthis giant test location
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00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,880
to continue their attemptto perfect the winter tire,
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00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,160
an innovation they created in 1934
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00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:49,440
using a special reinforced tread
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00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,400
that gripped into loose slow.
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00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,800
Petri Paananenis one of the circuit’s
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00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,000
highly-trained test drivers.
638
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,560
He’s part of a teaminvestigating how to reinvent
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00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,360
this 80-year-old concept
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00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,600
to meet the challengeof a rapidly-changing world.
641
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,920
Electric car sales are rapidlyincreasing across Europe,
642
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,200
with some projectingthey will account for
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00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,720
a hundred percent of car salesin 15 years.
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00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,440
PETRI PAANANEN:
Electric cars is quite
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00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,560
a big challenge
for the tire manufacturers.
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00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,240
Usually they are a bit more heavier
647
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,080
compared tothe combustion engine car,
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00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,320
because of those heavy battery cells.
649
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,000
And also, with the electronic motors,
650
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,920
you get instant power.
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00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,720
It’s very demanding for the tire.
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00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,320
♪♪
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NARRATOR:
The extra weight of electric cars
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creates increased momentumwhen cornering.
655
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,440
Along with high-powered motors,
656
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,200
they easily skid and slidearound snow-covered corners
657
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,560
on conventional winter tires.
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00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,920
PAANANEN:
When tire is not performing well
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00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,320
on the snow and the ice,
660
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,480
you can easily feelit’s over-steering too much.
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00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:18,920
You don’t feel safe.
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00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,240
NARRATOR:
It’s Petri’s job to test
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00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,000
the engineer’s latest designs
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00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,680
to overcome these issues
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00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,360
on White Hell’s toughest tracks.
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00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,360
PAANANEN:
The human touch
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00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,520
is very important in my job,
668
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,200
because there is no senseor what can measure
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00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,160
when you go edge of the grip limit.
670
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,800
♪♪
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NARRATOR:
On the winding track,
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00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,920
the new tires hold the heavy car
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00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,400
around the corners,despite Petri driving faster.
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00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,080
PAANANEN:
It’s very important to find
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00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,880
the right tires for the people
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00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,440
who is living herein these conditions in Finland,
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00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:21,920
so that they can survivethe different things
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00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,120
what Mother Nature brings down.
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00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,400
NARRATOR:
Petri and his team hope
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00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,480
the hours spent on the center’s tracks
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00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:35,880
will help electric cars conquereven the toughest environments.
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00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,680
♪♪
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00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,800
Finland is a land of extremes
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00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:49,560
and raw beautyon the frontier of Europe.
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00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,880
The people who live herehave successfully adapted
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00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,120
to life in the far north.
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00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,640
Their passion for new technology
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00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:02,920
while preserving this wilderness,and ancient traditions,
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00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,640
makes Finland one of themost innovative nations
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00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:07,520
in the world today.
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