Ohtakari is an island and community in the Finnish sector of the

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Description

Ohtakari is an island and fishing village of the

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district in the former municipality of

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. Ohtakari is at the head of the Lohtaja Vattaja peninsula, connected by a causeway, the last island before the open sea. From Ohtakari to Lohtaja village is about . Ohtakari holds a fishing port, a fishing museum, a Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland (''Suomen Luterilainen Evankeliumiyhdistys ry, SLEY'') camp and an old turf maze, or

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. There is also a look-out tower and functioning lighthouse. An annual festival is held in the village.

History

The oldest taxation records of Ohtakari date to the 1500s. Fishermen lived on the island during the best fishing period. The island also served as a

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's station for more than a hundred years. The work of the fishermen in the old days is presented in the fishing museum. The causeway leading to the island was completed in the 1970s.

Distances

village - about *

- about *

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Gallery

File:Ohtakari luotsitupa.JPG, The pilot's house on the island File:Ohtakari.JPG, Ohtakari's rocky shoreline

References

Sources
Lohtajan kunta - Ohtakari

SLEY:n Ohtakarin Leirikeskus
{{refend Finnish islands in the Baltic Landforms of North Ostrobothnia