Kahvankari is a small uninhabited island in the Finnish sector of the
Bay of Bothnia
The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia (; ) is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia, which is in turn the northern part of the Baltic Sea. The land holding the bay is still rising after the weight of ice-age glaciers has been removed, and wit ...
offshore from the city of
Oulu.
Description
Kahvankari lies to the north of the
Hermannit island and to the south of the larger
Kellon Kraaseli island in the
Kuivasmeri bay offshore from
Taskila.
It is about from
Letonniemi.
The island is protected under the Nature Conservation Act.
The island and surrounding water is part of a nature reserve.
The island is mainly covered with mixed forest, and its beaches are rocky. North of the island is a sand bar that stretches up to Kellon Kraaseli.
Sea birds nest on the island, including the
Ruddy turnstone
The ruddy turnstone (''Arenaria interpres'') is a small cosmopolitan wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus ''Arenaria''.
It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plov ...
(''Arenaria interpres'').
Gallery
File:Kahvankari, Oulu, Finland 2011-06-17.jpg, Kahvankari from the south
References
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Finnish islands in the Baltic
Geography of Oulu
Landforms of North Ostrobothnia
Uninhabited islands of Finland
