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.
Arctic Circle (organization) to be the best placed to effectively protect the sensitive ecosystems and traditional lifestyles of indigenous groups in the Arctic at the time when international commercial interest is growing steadily." As the 1996 Ottawa Declaration, a founding document of the Arctic Council, explicitly stipulates that the Council "should not deal with matters related to military security," a 2014 RAND Corporation publication suggested that security dialogue "leverage existing international conferences, such as that run by the Arctic Circle Assembly, where participation can be ad hoc and security is already an item of discussion." The Arctic Circle's honorary board is chaired by