Inari, Finland and Tsarmitunturi. The village of Inari is Finland's northernmost holiday resort. The airport is located in the nearby village of Ivalo. Results of the Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 in Inari: The municipality was established in 1876. The trilogy "His Dark Materials" by the English writer Philip Pullman, which takes place in an alternative world somewhat similar to our own, features a prominent character, Serafina Pekkala, who is a witch queen from a tribe near Lake Inari. A character in "The Snow Queen", a fantasy novel by the American author Mercedes Lackey, enters the Underworld and comes across a group of
Arctic Circle northwards at a speed of about per year. The word "arctic" comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός ("arktikos": "near the Bear, northern") and that from the word ἄρκτος ("arktos": "bear"). The Arctic Circle is the southernmost latitude in the Northern Hemisphere at which the centre of the sun can remain continuously above or below the horizon for twenty-four hours; as a result, at least once each year at any location within the Arctic Circle the sun is visible at local midnight, and at least once the centre is not visible at local noon. Directly on the Arctic Circle these events