New Luleå is a very small town and lies on a peninsula situated within a bay. The soil is rather infertile. The town stands on a small eminence of jumbled rocks filled in with sand and rubble so that it looks as if the sea has eaten away all the topsoil that used to be there – rather as if some predator has left only the bones behind, that is the stones, after throwing sand over them so that no one could see them.