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.
- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 473 metres (1,552 feet)
- Description: lake in Enontekiö, Finland, and Kiruna, Sweden
- Also known as“Bajit Gilbbesjávri”“Kilbbesjavri”“Kilpisjärvi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saana and Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station is an office building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilpisjärvi and Three-Country Cairn.
Three-Country Cairn
The Three-Country Cairn is the tripoint at which the… Three-Country Cairn is situated 9 km west of Lake Kilpisjärvi.
Lake Kilpisjärvi
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
69.03439° or 69° 2′ 4″ north
Longitude
20.76689° or 20° 46′ 1″ east
Open location code
9GX22QM8+QQ
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“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”
- Turkish: “Kilpisjärvi”
Localities in the Area
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