WINDSWEPT TREES OF THE WORLD

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Seven Sisters Cliffs, East Sussex, United Kingdom

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Dinorwig disused slate quarry, Llanberis, N Wales, Wales

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Golden Cap, Dorset, United Kingdom

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Lake Burabay, Kazakhstan

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Tronsen Ridge. Chelan County. Washington., United States

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Haväng, Baltic Sea, Sweden

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Donegal, Ireland

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Crummack Dale, United Kingdom

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Jebel Ghaweel, Arabia

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Glencoe, Scotland

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Goathland, United Kingdom

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East Skåne, Sweden

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Wasset Fell, United Kingdom

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Grand Canyon, USA

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Robin Hoods Bay, United Kingdom

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Dungeness Peninsula, United Kingdom

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Skåne, Sweden

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A SHORT STORY ABOUT
THE IK FOUNDATION'S
EMBLEM & NAME

A POWERFUL SYMBOL
The IK Foundation's emblem is a stately, windswept pine tree (Pinus sylvestris), a powerful symbol that demonstrates how almost anything can be achieved providing that we maintain high quality in our work and have patience. Within IK it is this collective and long-term thinking that we value most. Whether it is a question of a book or of field work, an exhibition or..., our emblem always crowns our work. The IK Foundation & Company

The windswept pine tree has been our banner since IK was formed on the 1st of January 1988. It was designed around a photograph of a lone and windswept pine on the South Baltic coast - the tree has stood there for over 200 years.

By the sea along the same coast one can today find the remains from one of the first pine trees that grew in the area for more than 10,000 years ago - the first trees following the last ice age. The picture shows one of the first photographs (1984).

A rooted pine stump which is still presently submerged at 14 meters below sea level in the Baltic Sea, and remains in the same position where it once grew for more than 10 000 years ago when the coastline and water surface were differently situated than today. Photo: J Lemte | The IK Foundation.

THE NAME
The story behind the acronym "IK" is simple. When IK was founded as an organisation in Scandinavia in 1988 the letter "I" stood for Institute and "K" for Cultural Research (in Scandinavian linguistic usage "Kulturforskning"). Within a few years of its founding, the abbreviation "IK" alone was used, while the organisation came to be called "The IK Foundation" or "The IK Foundation & Company". Thus the letters no longer represent a name but are merely part of the early history of the organisation.

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