Tourists visiting northern Finland were treated to a stunning display of the Northern Lights that lasted for several hours on Wednesday and into the early hours of yesterday morning.
With the area experiencing just a few short hours of daylight during the winter period, Lapland is a popular destination for those seeking to see the Aurora Borealis, and they were not disappointed.
Braving freezing temperatures, tourists and locals gathered around a campfire as the sky was illuminated by stunning shifting green patterns for over nine hours.
The lights appear as a result of collisions between electrically-charged particles from the sun with particles in the Earth's atmosphere.
