Talk:Scandinavian Mountains

Name of the Mountain Range
Is this really the English name for these mountains? I've never ever seen anything else than Kjølen been used in Norway. Fornadan (t) 23:49, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Try Googling - lots of scholarly books and papers use it for instance. Stan 00:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

In Norway the name Kjølen refers to the watershed between Norway and Sweden (and the mountains consisting of it). The mountain Galdhøpiggen lies far west of this watershed, and I don't think anyone in Norway would say it is a part of Kjølen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.44.157 (talk) 09:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Kölen is rather old-fashioned in Swedish too. I have never heard anyone saying "We're off to the middle Keel for the holidays" - it's not really used in speech, nor by STF (the Swedish Tourism Association), weather forecasters, news media or SJ, the public railways company which takes hundreds of thousands of Swedish and foreign tourists up there every year - it's really only found in (older) books. Everyone says fjällen. /Strausszek (talk) 11:19, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * English literary and historical references are to "the Keel", but as noted above referring only to the range forming the Swedish-Norwegian boundary, and not to Dovrefjell/Jotunheimen/Hardangervidda/Haukelifjell. I wound up here after seeing this name on the Jotunheimen article and, not having seen the name before, came to see what reference it has; it has none, apparently.  And in local perspective it's not a single range, obviously (since there's no collective name for it and despite its common orogeny).  My immediate reaction to this is that this page should not be titled as it is, but instead should be Mountains of Scandinavia and/or Skookum1 (talk) 03:03, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

The name of this mountain range in English is actually highly problematic. In the 1890 Encyclopedia Britannica, for instance, these mountains are referred to as the "Scandinavian Alps." The term "Scandes," which is currently indicated in the main article as a common or accepted name for the range, is neither common nor commonly accepted. It would seem appropriate for the main article to mention the remarkable fact that such a large range has no single, consistently used, historical English name. Jessdave (talk) 00:38, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Age of the mountain chain
The Caledonian orogeny was 400 million years ago. These mountains were eroded away with normal speed, and the Scandinavian Peninsula was a plain during the Mesozoic, partly flooded by the ocean. The Scandinavian Mountains of today were formed in Paleogene and Neogene. However, they do contain rocks from The Caledonian orogeny, but also much older rock. Trurl1 (talk) 21:20, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 05:32, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Area
No information about the surface of the Scandinavian Mountains. WorldCitizen333 (talk) 11:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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Old or young?
This sentence should presumable be changed I guess? "The mountains are relatively high for a range so young and are very steep in places". Mountains tend to wear down over time so this should be "so old" right? 94.255.243.101 (talk) 14:20, 12 January 2024 (UTC)