Lake Kilpisjärvi
Kilpisjärvi is a medium-sized lake located at the north-western tip of Finland and northernmost Sweden. Treriksröset, the point where the borders of Finland, Sweden and Norway join is located some 2.5 kilometres northwest from the lake.Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Enontekiö, Finland, and Kiruna, Sweden
- Also known as: “Bajit Gilbbesjávri”, “Kilbbesjavri”, “Kilpisjarvi”, and “Kilpisjärvi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saana and Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.
Saana
Peak
Photo: Heikki Immonen, CC BY 3.0.
Saana is a fell in Enontekiö, Finland. Saana's summit lies 1,029 metres above sea level and 556 m above the adjacent Kilpisjärvi lake. Geologically it is part of the Scandinavian Mountains, and is made of the same kinds of schist and gneiss rock. Saana is situated 3½ km east of Lake Kilpisjärvi.
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station
Office building
Photo: Muu-karhu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station is an office building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilpisjärvi and Three-Country Cairn.
Kilpisjärvi
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Kilpisjärvi is a small village in Enontekiö, Finland's "arm", the only real alpine village in Finland. Several sights are located in Kilpisjärvi or nearby.
Three-Country Cairn
Locality
Photo: Azerty197666, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Three-Country Cairn is the tripoint at which the international borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet, and the name of the monument that marks the point. Three-Country Cairn is situated 9 km west of Lake Kilpisjärvi.
Lake Kilpisjärvi
- Category: body of water
- Location: Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Kilpisjärvi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Lake Kilpisjärvi” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kilpisjärvi aintzira”
- Catalan: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Cebuano: “Kilpisjärvi (bahin nga lanaw)”
- Cebuano: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Chinese: “基尔皮斯湖”
- Chinese: “基爾皮斯湖”
- Dutch: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كيلپيسچارڤى”
- Esperanto: “Kilpisjärvi (lago)”
- Esperanto: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Estonian: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Finnish: “Kilpisjärvi”
- French: “Kilpisjärvi”
- German: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Korean: “킬피스예르비호”
- Latvian: “Kilpisjervi”
- Lithuanian: “Kilpisjervis”
- Northern Sami: “Gilbbesjávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Innsjøen Kilpisjärvi”
- Norwegian: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Russian: “Кильписъярви”
- Swedish: “Kilpisjärvi”
- Swedish: “Ylinen Kilpisjärvi”
- “Gilbbesjávri”
- “Kilpisjärvi”
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