Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area
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| Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area | |
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| IUCN Category VI (Managed Resource Protected Area) | |
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| Location | Lapland, Finland |
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| Area | 1,570 km² (606 mi²) |
| Established | 1991 |
| Governing body | Metsähallitus |
The Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area (Muotkatunturin erämaa-alue) is a wilderness reserve in Lapland, Finland. It was established in 1991 like all the other 11 wilderness areas in Lapland. Its area is 1,570 km². The Muotkatunturis are reindeer management area, and forestry is also carried on there. The area is maintained by the Metsähallitus.
There are no marked paths for travelers, and the area only has four wilderness huts. Therefore it is virtually completely natural and primitive. In the north-western corner there are vast swamps, in the north and west tunturi ridges and river valleys splitting them, and in the south-west there's pine forest. The Peltojärvi lake is in the middle of the wilderness. The highest tunturi peak is Kuárvikozzâ (590 m, 1,940 ft).
In the south, the area is bordered by the Inari-Angeli road, in the west by Angeli-Karigasniemi road, in the north by Kaamanen-Karigasniemi road an in the east by Valtatie 4.
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- This article is based on a translation of an article in the Finnish Wikipedia.
- FI parks. Nature World Wide. World Institute for Conservation and Environment. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.
