Finnmarksvidda

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The lowest layers can be found near Karasjok and Tana in eastern Finnmark. The river valleys are in the area only 100-250 m moh.

Finnmark ( Northern Sami Finnmárkkoduottar ) is the largest mountain plateau in Norway, with an area of ​​over 22,000 square kilometers. The plateau is located approximately between 300 m and 500 m above sea level and covers approximately 36% of Finnmark.

Geography

From Alta in the west to the Varanger Peninsula in the east, the area extends about 300 km, where the distance from north to south is at least as large. In the south, the highlands continues in Finland. In the southeastern part of the plateau is the Øvre - Anarjohka National Park. The 1409 km ² large park was opened in 1976.

Fauna and Flora

The plateau contains large birch forests, small stocky, relatively dry pine forests ( pine barrens English ), bogs and incurred during the Ice Age glacier lakes edge. Finnmark plateau lies entirely north of the Arctic Circle and is best known as the land of nomadic seeds and reindeer herders known. Their shelters in the tundra are still used in winter.

Climate

Finnmark plateau lies in the interior of the country and has a continental climate with the lowest winter temperatures in Norway. The lowest ever recorded temperature was -51.4 ° in Norway C Karasjok on 1 January 1886. 's 24- hour average temperatures in January and in July the same place are -17.1 ° C and 13.1 ° C, is while the annual average of -2.4 ° C. The rainfall is only 366 mm per year in Karasjok even temperatures were measured up to 32.4 ° C in July, thus resulting in a possible annual variation in temperature of 84 K, which is rare in Europe. The annual mean temperature on the plateau is deeply -3 ° C, measured at Šihččajávri in Kautokeino, what is the lowest average temperature on the Norwegian mainland, with the exception of mountain peaks, even deeper than Jan Mayen and Bear Island (Norwegian Bjørnøya ).