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Los, Sweden
Los
is a
locality
situated
in
Ljusdal Municipality
,
Gävleborg County
,
Sweden
with
387
inhabitants
in
2010
.
The village
is known for its
18th-century
cobalt
mine
, where
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
discovered
the
chemical element
of
nickel
in
1751
.
Today
,
the mine
is a
tourist attraction
.
An 8-kilometre-wide
crater on Mars
was
officially
named after this
village
in 1979. The
crater
is located at
35
.4°S and 76.3°W on the
Martian surface
.