ABSTRACTThe northernmost part of Scandinavia, the Va- ranger peninsula, belongs to the Subarctic zone. It is possible to observe there the occurrence of both active and inactive periglacial phenomena at the same height above sea level. The area is picked out as being transitional between the active periglaciai zone of the Arctic, and the fossilised periglacial zone of Central Europe. In comparison with Spitsbergen. Varanger only exhibits half the active, high Arctic periglacial processes.