Lapland is significant to Jane Eyre because its imagery is the lens through which Jane understands and expresses her loneliness. In Jane Eyre, Jane finds a book and lists off multiple places with cold climates. She then uses things from these climates to explain how she feels when she's at Gateshead. Jane says that, when reading, she "gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of a cloud at a wreck just sinking" (Brontë 10).