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    Finnmarksvidda (Northern Sami: Finnmárkkoduottar; English: Finnmark plateau/highland) is Norway's largest plateau, with an area greater than 22,000 square...
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    rare on the coast. The county's interior parts are part of the great Finnmarksvidda plateau, with an elevation of 300 to 400 m (980 to 1,310 ft), with multiple...
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    Innlandet county gets 295 millimetres (11.6 inches) precipitation. Finnmarksvidda and some interior valleys of Troms county receive around 400 millimetres...
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    and moist air coming from the southwest, thus northern Sweden and the Finnmarksvidda plateau in Norway receive little precipitation and have cold winters...
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    All classes begin in Alta before crossing Norway's largest plateau, Finnmarksvidda. The open class proceeds to Kirkenes and then turning back to Alta....
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  • opposition. Anárjohka national park is located on the interior of the Finnmarksvidda plateau and it includes extensive birch woods, pine barrens, bogs, and...
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    the Norwegian National Road 92. The small village lies on the vast Finnmarksvidda plateau, about half-way between the villages of Masi and Kautokeino...
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    eturn-to-nature-that-has-led-anita-to-make-finnmarking-off-tours-on-finnmarksvidda-or-salmon-fishing-in-lovely-rivers-where-the-fish-bites-willingly-a...
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    120 km (75 mi) southeast of Storslett, as the vast and more barren Finnmarksvidda plateau takes over. Reisa National Park protects the upper part of the...
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    Senja. The interior and the coast east of Nordkapp (corresponding to Finnmarksvidda and eastern Finnmark) is less dominated by mountains, and is mostly...
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    and author Odd Mathis Hætta has described in the book Samibygder på Finnmarksvidda that as a four-year-old in the autumn of 1944 he observed the plane...
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    Location Approx. latitude Approx. elevation of tree line Notes (m) (ft) Finnmarksvidda, Norway 69°N 500 1,600 At 71°N, near the coast, the tree-line is below...
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    Municipality. It is one of the most important rivers that drains the Finnmarksvidda plateau. It flows into the famous salmon-fishing Tana River near the...
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    peninsula consists mainly of a treeless plain, a continuation of the Finnmarksvidda plateau to the south. A number of fjords cut into the peninsula, of...
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    characterized by big islands, like Sørøya and Seiland. The inland is covered by Finnmarksvidda, a relatively barren plateau about 300 to 400 metres (980 to 1,310 ft)...
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    (north) from the Alta Power Station. The river flows down from the Finnmarksvidda plateau (elevation: 450 metres or 1,480 feet) into the canyon (elevation:...
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    with a maximum difference of 28 °C (50 °F) in Karasjok Municipality. Finnmarksvidda has the coldest winters in mainland Norway, but inland areas much further...
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    The Sámi author Odd Mathis Hætta writes in the book Samebygder på Finnmarksvidda 2 about 3 Serbian prisoners who had escaped from a prison camp and who...
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    Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway, in the far south of the Finnmarksvidda plateau, in the southwestern parts of Anárjohka National Park. From...
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    Sautso, one of the largest canyons in Europe on its way from the high Finnmarksvidda plateau down to the sea. The villages of Kautokeino and Masi are located...
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    the coast. The interior parts of the county include part of the great Finnmarksvidda plateau, with an elevation of 300 to 400 m (980 to 1,310 ft), with numerous...
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  • In 2010, Islam Net set out a "missionary expedition" to Nordkapp, Finnmarksvidda and Hammerfest, in order to "spread the message of the prophet Muhammad"...
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    mouth of the Alta River, and receives most of its water from the great Finnmarksvidda plateau. Below the power station, the river has salmon, and is a good...
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  • Eilif Skodvin, Anne Bjørnstad 28 August 2019 (2019-08-28) 1031 A.D. Finnmarksvidda: Shield-maiden Alfhildr arrives at a collection of huts, looking for...
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    The first group of herders made the three month journey in 1894, from Finnmarksvidda, across North America, to Teller Reindeer Station. According to the...
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    Iešjávri is a large lake in Finnmark county, Norway. The lake lies on the Finnmarksvidda plateau along the border of three municipalities: Alta, Kautokeino,...
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  • county, Norway. The 5.18-square-kilometre (2.00 sq mi) lake lies on the Finnmarksvidda plateau, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) east of the village of Láhpoluoppal...
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  • the Sami people. The film was shot in Kautokeino Municipality on the Finnmarksvidda plateau during the winter of 1987, where temperatures were as low as...
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    tributaries: Anárjohka and Kárášjohka. It includes large tracts of the high Finnmarksvidda plateau. Lakes in the region include Čorotjávri, Gásadatjávri, Iešjávri...
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    Some depressions found in Jutland, and some circular lakes in the Finnmarksvidda plateau may be remnants of collapsed pingos. The possible Jutland pingos...
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