But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

Other countries like Japan, the USA, Canada, Russia and other parts of Scandinavia, also have coniferous biomes, like Finland. It’s winter and the seasons tend to be similar to those in the UK ...