Hammastunturi Wilderness Area

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name = Hammastunturi Wilderness Area
native_name = Hammastunturin erämaa-alue
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category_local = Wilderness area of Finland
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The Hammastunturi Wilderness Area ("Hammastunturin 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 1,825 km². The area is situated in a tunturi and forest area between the Urho Kekkonen National Park and Lemmenjoki National Park. It is governed by the Metsähallitus.

The history of the area comprises reindeer management, the great gold rush of Lapland, and later road building and settlements. During the gold rush, around 1870, "Kultala" along the Ivalo River was a large village center inhabiting hundreds of people. There were as many gold diggers as the other people of Inari put together.

ee also

*Wilderness reserves of Finland

References

*cite web| url= http://www.luontoon.fi/page.asp?Section=5563 | title=Hammastunturi Wilderness Area | work=Outdoors.fi |publisher=Metsähallitus|accessdate=2006-06-06
*cite web| url= http://www.birdlist.org/eur/finland/fi_parks.htm |title=FI parks |work=Nature World Wide |publisher=World Institute for Conservation and Environment|accessdate=2006-06-06