In Finland, kids take hovercraft to school over frozen Baltic SeaAFP, PARGAS, FinlandSkipper Sampsa Jalo greets three young children on their way home from school as they board an unusual amphibious vessel docked and humming at a wooden pier on the frozen Baltic Sea. An hovercraft used also to bring home kids from school, on March 3 floats on the ice of the Finnish archipelago in Pargas, Finland. Peaking on February 20, “the ice cover has been the most extensive in the entire Baltic Sea region since 2011”, he said. “In the long term, the maximum winter ice cover in the Baltic Sea is shrinking, and that is due to climate change,” he said. In the Pargas archipelago, there are 9,000 second homes on 1,070 islands, according to Pargas’ head of archipelago affairs, Benjamin Donner.

Source: Taipei Times March 09, 2026 16:27 UTC