Selkä-Sarvi

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Selkä-Sarvi is an island belonging to the Bay of Bothnia National Park in the waters of the city of Kemi in the Bay of Bothnia. The island is located near the Finland–Sweden border, about 21 kilometers southwest of the center of Kemi. It belongs to the archipelago formed by Savukrunn, Sarvenkrunn, Pitkäleto, Linnankluvu and Maa-Horn, as well as Sarvenkataja on the Swedish side. The island is also the second largest island in the Bay of Bothnia National Park. It is about 1.3 kilometers long and at its widest about 500 meters wide. Its highest point rises to a height of about four meters above sea level. At the northernmost tip of the island is the Sarvi excursion port, to which a marked boat lane leads from the northwest. According to several sources, the island should have a volcano, but in the 1994 inventory no indication of a volcano was found on the island. The island of Selkä-Sarvi is an old fishing base. At most, the island has had a population during the heyday, when the island's population rose to about three hundred. Eight of the buildings of the old fishing village in the southeast corner of the island are still left, in addition to the remains of several buildings and cellars in the area. In addition to the fisherman's base at the northern end of the island, there is a national park scout lodge, a steel lookout tower and a helicopter landing area. A north-south natur

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