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Brobacka Nature Reserve, located outside Alingsås between the lakes Mjörn and Anten, contains one of the country's most impressive areas with giant's kettles, boasting around forty excavations, where the largest one, with its 18 meter diameter, stands out. The giant's kettles can be accessed via
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may be continued into the bed of the glacier. After the ice departed the area, the giant's kettle formed as an empty shaft, or as a
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