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or is a lake that lies in
Fauske Municipality or is a municipality located in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Fauske. Some of the villages in Fauske include Nystad, Venset, Straum ...
in
Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...
county, Norway. The lake lies about west of the border with
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
and about east of the village of Sulitjelma. The water from the lake flows west into the neighboring lake
Låmivatnet or is a lake in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The lake lies about east of the village of Sulitjelma, just south of the Sulitjelma Glacier and north of Junkerdal National Park. The border with Sweden is east of the lake. Th ...
. The ending ''-jávrre'' is the Lule Sami word for ''"lake"''.


See also

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List of lakes in Norway This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in Norway, sorted by county. For the geography and history of lakes in that country, see Lakes in Norway, including: * List of largest lakes in Norway * List of deepest lakes in Norway Akershus *Bjørk ...
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Geography of Norway Norway is a country located in Northern Europe in the northern and western parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The majority of the country borders water, including the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Sea to the southwest, the North Atla ...


References

Lakes of Nordland Fauske {{Nordland-geo-stub