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.
Inari Sami people Inari Sami culture was fishing and hunting. Fishing lost its importance because Lake Inari was being overfished in the 20th century. The main hunting game was Finnish forest reindeer, but their numbers collapsed in the 18th century. Inari Sami moved between winter and summer homes, though this practice disappeared quite early. Inari Sami mythology had some of the same gods as Finnish mythology did. Most important of them was "Äijih", who had similar characteristics as Finnish Ukko had. Other gods included "Piäiváž" and "Čäcialmai". Holy sites of Inari Sami ("Sieidi") were often on islands of Lake Inari. Most important of