Jäckvik (pronounced ) or Jäkkvik is a mountain hamlet in
Arjeplog municipality on
Swedish national road 95 (''Silver Road''). It is located near
Pieljekaise National Park and about 20 km south of the
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at w ...
. Jäckvik has a lodge and a ski run.
The Swedish priest
Lars Levi Læstadius
Lars Levi Laestadius (; 10 January 1800 – 21 February 1861) was a Swedish Sami pastor and administrator of the Swedish state Lutheran church in Lapland who founded the Laestadian pietist revival movement to help his largely Sami congregations ...
was born in Jäckvik.
Populated places in Arjeplog Municipality
Lapland (Sweden)
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