Blue Ribbon - Round the Lake Balaton Race Blue Ribbon - Round the Lake Balaton Race Kékszalag or the Blue Ribbon Round the Lake Balaton Race is an international sports event held in Hungary every year between more than 30 boat classes. The regatta starts and finishes in Balatonfüred, after the 155+km circumnavigation of the Lake Balaton. By today the regatta became Europe's most prestigious and oldest (the first was held in 1934) existing round a lake competition (Bol d’Or Mirabaud is since 1939, and Centomiglia is since 1951). The Blue Ribbon’s course is the longest among the main European round the lake events and nowadays has also
Lake Inari 3,000 islands in total. Trout, lake salmon, Arctic char, white fish, grayling, perch and pike are found in Lake Inari. The lake covers . It empties northwards through the Paatsjoki at the mouth of the Varangerfjord, which is a bay of Barents Sea. Philip Pullman, author of the "His Dark Materials" book series, chose this lake to be the home of the witch Serafina Pekkala. The lake depression is a graben bounded by faults active in the Cenozoic. Lake Inari Lake Inari (, , , , , ) is the largest lake in Sápmi and the third-largest lake in Finland.