Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gundumar Kiruna tana da iyaka da Norway da Finland kuma Kiruna tana kusa da ƙasashen biyu. Wannan ya haifar da dakarun sojoji da yawa da aka tura zuwa yankin a duk lokacin da aka nemi a tattara su; da farko a watan Satumbar 1939 bayan mamayewar Jamus da Poland, sannan a watan Nuwamba 1939 bayan mamayewar Rasha da Finland
, amma a lokuta biyu, sojojin Sweden ba su shiga cikin fada ba. A watan Maris na 1940, Churchill ya nemi izini don jigilar sojoji daga Narvik a Norway zuwa Finland ta hanyar Kiruna da Haparanda a cikin "Operation Catherine". Saboda tsoron cewa kasancewar sojojin Burtaniya kusa da ma'adinan ma'adinai na Kiruna zai haifar da harin Jamus a kan Sweden, an ƙi wannan bukatar.