12 km

This route is an easy one where you cycle around the city peninsula, part of the Örnäset residential area with its skatepark and the old workers’ residential area of Svartöstaden, originally built to house the dockworkers of the old ore harbour. The old ore harbour is now the home port of the Swedish Maritime Administration’s icebreakers.

See map and description of the tour in our guide ”Cycling in Luleå”.

About the icebreakers:
A powerful sight, summer and winter, are the six icebreakers in Luleå harbour – all with names from Norse mythology; Ale, Atle, Frej, Ymer, Odin and Idun. Each icebreaker has its own special function, for example the Oden is used during the winter for icebreaking in the Gulf of Bothnia and during the summers is chartered out for research expeditions in the Arctic.