Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area
Encyclopedia
Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area is a wilderness reserve
in Enontekiö
municipality, Lapland, Finland
. It was established in 1991 like all the other wilderness reserves in Lapland and covers 1280 square kilometre.
Wilderness reserves of Finland
The wilderness areas of Finland are remote areas which are not strictly nature reserves. The areas were set up in 1991 to preserve their wilderness character, the Sami culture and their natural form of livelihood. There are 12 such areas, all of which are located in northern Lapland. The reserves...
in Enontekiö
Enontekiö
Enontekiö is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approx. inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very sparsely populated area of about between the Swedish and Norwegian border...
municipality, Lapland, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. It was established in 1991 like all the other wilderness reserves in Lapland and covers 1280 square kilometre.