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with a depth of 50 m.

Isostatic rebound

The bay lies in the area in Northern Europe where the ice was at its thickest during the last ice age. The Bay of Bothnia was under ice until the "Ancylus Lake" period (7500-6000 BC), when the ice sheet withdrew to the mountains of Northern Scandinavia.The land is now rising by post-glacial rebound at the highest rate in the Baltic Sea, at an estimated rate of 9 mm a year.Today the Bothnian Bay lies

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