Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area
Pöyrisjärvi is a wilderness area in Enontekiö in north-western Finnish Lapland by the lake with the same name, by the Norwegian border. It has varying nature and two traditional Sami summer villages, still inhabited part of the year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Valtteri Kokkoniemi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: wilderness area in Enontekiö, Finland
- Also known as: “Poeyrisjaervi Wilderness Area” and “Pöyrisjärven erämaa-alue”
Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area
- Categories: wilderness area and recreation area
- Location: Enontekiö, Tunturi-Lappi, North-west Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.6442° or 68° 38′ 39″ northLongitude
24.2409° or 24° 14′ 27″ eastElevation
425 metres (1,394 feet)Operator
Parks & Wildlife FinlandOpen location code
9GW6J6VR+M9OpenStreetMap ID
way 674506246OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveGeoNames ID
12511221Wikidata ID
Q2784242
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pöyrisjärvi Eremu Basatia”
- Basque: “Pöyrisjärviko Eremu Basatia”
- Dutch: “Wildernisgebied Poyrisjarvi”
- Dutch: “Wildernisgebied Pöyrisjärvi”
- Finnish: “Pöyrisjärven erämaa-alue”
- Finnish: “Pöyrisjärven erämaa”
- Finnish: “Pöyrisjärvi”
- Inari Sami: “Pöyrisjäävri meccikuávlu”
- Northern Sami: “Bievrrašjávrri meahcceguovlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pöyrisjärvi ødemarksområde”
- Norwegian: “Pöyrisjärvi ødemarksområde”
- Swedish: “Pöyrisjärvi ödemarksområde”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area”. Photo: Valtteri Kokkoniemi, CC BY-SA 2.0.